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,

A psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.

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.

Our God comes and does not stay silent; a fire devours before him, and it is very stormy around him.

4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.

He calls to the heavens above and to the earth so that he may judge his people:

5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.

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

6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.

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

7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.

“Hear, my people, and I will speak; I am God, your God.

8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.

9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.

I will take no bull out of your house, or male goats out of your folds.

10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.

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

11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.

I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.

13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I 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 the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.

Call on me in the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will glorify me.”

16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?

But to the wicked God says, “What have you to do with declaring my statutes, that you have taken my covenant in your mouth,

17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.

since you hate instruction and throw my words away?

18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.

When you see a thief, you agree with him; you participate with those who commit adultery.

19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue expresses deceit.

20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.

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

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.

You have done these things, but I have kept silent, so you thought that I was someone just like yourself. But I will reprove you and bring up, right before your eyes, all the things you have done.

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.

Give this careful consideration, you who forget God, otherwise I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to come to help you!

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.

The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving praises me, and to anyone who plans his path in the right way I will show God's salvation.”