Psalms 50

1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.

2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.

3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

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

8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,

10 for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

19 You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

23 He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

1 ¶ A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah.

7 ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of thy folds.

10 For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.

11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof.

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

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

16 ¶ But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own 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.

22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.

23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.

1 A psalm of Assaph. God the Lord, the Mighty, speaks and calls to the world from the rising of the sun to its setting.

2 out of Zion cometh the brightness of God.

3 Our God cometh, and is not silent. Fire devoureth before him, and great weather round about him.

4 He calleth heaven and earth to judge his people.

5 Gather unto me my saints, which esteem the covenant more than sacrifice.

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for GOD is judge. Sela.

7 Hear, my people, let me speak, O Israel; let me testify among thee, I, GOD, am thy GOD.

8 Because of thy sacrifice I will not punish thee: for thy burnt offerings are always before me.

9 I will not take bullocks out of thy house, nor goats out of thy stalls;

10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and the cattle upon the mountains, as they go by thousands.

11 I know all the fowls of the mountains, and every beast of the field is before me.

12 Where I hungered, I would not tell thee: for the ground is mine, and all that is therein.

13 Wilt thou have me to eat the flesh of an ox, or to drink the blood of a goat?

14 Offer thanks to God and pay your vows to the Most High.

15 And call upon me in trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt praise me.

16 But unto the wicked God saith, Why declareest thou my statutes, and takest my covenant in thy mouth?

17 If thou hate discipline, and cast my words behind thee?

18 When thou seest a thief, thou shalt run with him, and have fellowship with adulterers.

19 Thou hast made thy mouth to speak evil, and thy tongue to speak deceit.

20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy mother's son.

21 Thou doest so, and I hold my peace. Thou thinkest I shall be as thou art. But I will punish thee, and will make thee see it.

22 Mark this, ye that forget God, that I will not even depart, and there shall be no more saviour.

23 He that offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and there is the way that I may shew him the salvation of God.