Psalms 50

1 A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof].

A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun.

2 Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.

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

3 God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

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

4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

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

5 Assemble you his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

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

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

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

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

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

8 I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

9 I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks.

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

10 For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

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

12 If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fullness thereof.

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

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

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:

15 And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. (Pause)

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

16 But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?

But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

17 Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

18 If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

19 Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

20 You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.

Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.

21 These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, [but] I will reprove you, and set [your offences] before you.

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

22 Now consider these things, you that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.

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

23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.

Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] deportment [aright] will I show the salvation of God.