Psalms 50

1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

A Psalm. Of Asaph. God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.

3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

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

4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

5 “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!

6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. (Selah)

7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.

8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:

10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;

11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

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

Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honour me.”

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

16 But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;

19 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

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

Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.