Psalms 50

1 The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

A psalm of Asaph. The Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

From Zion, perfection of beauty, God’s glory shines forth.

3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Our God comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest around him.

4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

He summons the heavens above and the earth to judge his people.

5 Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him;

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. (Selah)

that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. (Selah)

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.

‘Hear, O my people, and I will speak, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.

8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me

9 I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.

Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;

10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

I know all the birds of the air, all that moves on the fields is mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High:

Offer to God a thank-offering, pay the Most High your vows.

15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

Summon me in the day of distress, I will rescue you, so will you honour me.’

16 But to the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?

But to the wicked God says: ‘What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth

17 Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.

while you yourself hate correction, and cast my words behind you?

18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

When you see a thief, you run with them; with adulterers you keep company.

19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

You let your mouth loose for evil, your tongue contrives deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

You shamefully speak of your kin, and slander your own mother’s son.

21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.

And because I kept silence at this, you did take me for one like yourself. But I will convict you and show you plainly.

22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

‘Now you who forget God, mark this, lest I rend you, past hope of deliverance.

23 Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.

Those who bring a thank-offering honour me; but to those: who follows my way, I will show the salvation of God.’