50Psalms 50

PSAL. L. / 1 The Maiestie of God in the Church. 5 His order to gather Saints. 7 The pleasure of God is not in Ceremonies, 14 but in sinceritie of Obedience. / A Psalme of Asaph.

1The mightie God, euen the Lord hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sunne, vnto the going downe thereof.Select Psalms 50:1

2Out of Sion the perfection of beautie, God hath shined.Select Psalms 50:2

3Our God shall come, and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and it shalbe very tempestuous round about him.Select Psalms 50:3

4He shall call to the heauens from aboue, and to the earth, that hee may iudge his people.Select Psalms 50:4

5Gather my Saints together vnto mee: those that haue made a couenant with me, by sacrifice.Select Psalms 50:5

6And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes; for God is iudge himselfe. Selah.Select Psalms 50:6

7Heare, O my people, and I will speake, O Israel, and I will testifie against thee; I am God, euen thy God.Select Psalms 50:7

8I will not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, to haue bene continually before me.Select Psalms 50:8

9I will take no bullocke out of thy house, nor hee goates out of thy folds.Select Psalms 50:9

10For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.Select Psalms 50:10

11I know all the foules of the mountaines: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.Select Psalms 50:11

12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulnesse thereof.Select Psalms 50:12

13Will I eate the flesh of bulles, or drinke the blood of goats?Select Psalms 50:13

14Offer vnto God thankesgiuing, and pay thy vowes vnto the most high.Select Psalms 50:14

15And call vpon mee in the day of trouble; I will deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.Select Psalms 50:15

16But vnto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to doe, to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Couenant in thy mouth?Select Psalms 50:16

17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behinde thee.Select Psalms 50:17

18When thou sawest a thiefe, then thou consentedst with him, and hast bene partaker with adulterers.Select Psalms 50:18

19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and thy tongue frameth deceit.Select Psalms 50:19

20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine owne mothers sonne.Select Psalms 50:20

21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy selfe: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.Select Psalms 50:21

22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I teare you in pieces, and there be none to deliuer.Select Psalms 50:22

23Who so offereth praise, glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conuersation aright, will I shew the saluation of God.Select Psalms 50:23