Psalms 50

1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.

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

2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

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

3 Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

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

4 He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.

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

5 Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.

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

6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. (Selah)

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

7 Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.

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

8 Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.

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

9 I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.

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

10 For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.

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

11 I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.

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

12 If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.

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

13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?

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

14 Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.

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

15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

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

16 And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

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

17 Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

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

18 If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.

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

19 Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

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

20 Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

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

21 These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine 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 Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

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

23 He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on 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.’