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

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

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

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.

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

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

He calls to the heavens above, to 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 my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

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

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is 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, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

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

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

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

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

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

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honour 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 wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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