Psalms 50

1 A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.

A Melody of Asaph. El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof:

2 Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.

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

3 Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.

Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

4 Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.

He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.

5 Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.

Gather yourselves unto me—ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.

6 And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. (Selah)

Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. (Selah)

7 Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: —

8 I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.

Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:

9 I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.

I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;

10 For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.

For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;

11 I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me:

12 If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

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

13 Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?

14 Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,

Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows;

15 And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.

Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me.

16 But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,

But, to the lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth?

17 Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?

Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;

18 For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.

If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, —And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;

19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit;

20 Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.

Thou wouldst sit down—Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother’s son, wouldst thou expose a fault: —

21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.

These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set [thine offences] in order before thine eyes.

22 Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.

Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: —

23 He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.

He that sacrificeth a thankoffering, will glorify me, —And will prepare a way by which I may show him the salvation of God.