Psalms 50
1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
| מזמור לאסף אל אלהים יהוה-- דבר ויקרא-ארץ ממזרח-שמש עד-מבאו |
2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
| מציון מכלל-יפי-- אלהים הופיע |
3 God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.
| יבא אלהינו ואל-יחרש אש-לפניו תאכל וסביביו נשערה מאד |
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
| יקרא אל-השמים מעל ואל-הארץ לדין עמו |
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
| אספו-לי חסידי-- כרתי בריתי עלי-זבח |
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
| ויגידו שמים צדקו כי-אלהים שפט הוא סלה |
7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.
| שמעה עמי ואדברה-- ישראל ואעידה בך אלהים אלהיך אנכי |
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
| לא על-זבחיך אוכיחך ועולתיך לנגדי תמיד |
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
| לא-אקח מביתך פר ממכלאתיך עתודים |
10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
| כי-לי כל-חיתו-יער בהמות בהררי-אלף |
11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
| ידעתי כל-עוף הרים וזיז שדי עמדי |
12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
| אם-ארעב לא-אמר לך כי-לי תבל ומלאה |
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
| האוכל בשר אבירים ודם עתודים אשתה |
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
| זבח לאלהים תודה ושלם לעליון נדריך |
15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
| וקראני ביום צרה אחלצך ותכבדני |
16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
| ולרשע אמר אלהים מה-לך לספר חקי ותשא בריתי עלי-פיך |
17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
| ואתה שנאת מוסר ותשלך דברי אחריך |
18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
| אם-ראית גנב ותרץ עמו ועם מנאפים חלקך |
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
| פיך שלחת ברעה ולשונך תצמיד מרמה |
20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
| תשב באחיך תדבר בבן-אמך תתן-דפי |
21 These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.
| אלה עשית והחרשתי-- דמית היות-אהיה כמוך אוכיחך ואערכה לעיניך |
22 Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
| בינו-נא זאת שכחי אלוה פן-אטרף ואין מציל |
23 The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.
| זבח תודה יכבדנני ושם דרך--אראנו בישע אלהים |
