Psalms 50
1 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.
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,
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.
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.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
5 Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. (Selah)
And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
9 I will take no bull out of thy house, nor male goats out of thy folds.
I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all it containeth.
If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the most High:
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
16 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?
But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou didst consent with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother’s son.
Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
21 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.
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.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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.
23 Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conduct aright will I show the salvation of God.
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.
