Psalms 50

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

“A psalm of Assaph.” The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting.

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

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth forth.

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

Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.

4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.

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

“Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

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

And the heavens tell of his righteousness; for God is judge himself. (Selah)

7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.

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

Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

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

I will not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

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

For mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.

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

I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.

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

Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?

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

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;

15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee, — and so wilt thou glorify me.”

16 But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

But unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth?

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

And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

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

When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.

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

Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

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

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.

21 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.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”

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

Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with none to deliver.

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

Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.