Psalms 50
1 A psalm of Asaph. The Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.
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.
2 From Zion, perfection of beauty, God’s glory shines forth.
Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.
3 Our God comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest around him.
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.
4 He summons the heavens above and the earth to judge his people.
Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.
5 Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him;
Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.
6 that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. (Selah)
And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. (Selah)
7 ‘Hear, O my people, and I will speak, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.
8 Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me
I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
9 Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;
I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.
10 for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on a thousand hills.
For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.
11 I know all the birds of the air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.
12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.
13 Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, or drink the blood of goats?
Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?
14 Offer to God a thank-offering, pay the Most High your vows.
Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,
15 Summon me in the day of distress, I will rescue you, so will you honour me.’
And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
16 But to the wicked God says: ‘What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth
But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,
17 while you yourself hate correction, and cast my words behind you?
Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?
18 When you see a thief, you run with them; with adulterers you keep company.
For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.
19 You let your mouth loose for evil, your tongue contrives deceit.
Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
20 You shamefully speak of your kin, and slander your own mother’s son.
Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.
21 And because I kept silence at this, you did take me for one like yourself. But I will convict you and show you plainly.
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.
22 ‘Now you who forget God, mark this, lest I rend you, past hope of deliverance.
Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.
23 Those who bring a thank-offering honour me; but to those: who follows my way, I will show the salvation of God.’
He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.
