50Psalms 50

1A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods--Jehovah--hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.Select Psalms 50:1

2From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.Select Psalms 50:2

3Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.Select Psalms 50:3

4He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.Select Psalms 50:4

5Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.Select Psalms 50:5

6And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.Select Psalms 50:6

7Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God am I.Select Psalms 50:7

8Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings Are before Me continually.Select Psalms 50:8

9I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.Select Psalms 50:9

10For Mine is every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.Select Psalms 50:10

11I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field is with Me.Select Psalms 50:11

12If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine is the world and its fulness.Select Psalms 50:12

13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?Select Psalms 50:13

14Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.Select Psalms 50:14

15And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.Select Psalms 50:15

16And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee--to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?Select Psalms 50:16

17Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.Select Psalms 50:17

18If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers is thy portion.Select Psalms 50:18

19Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,Select Psalms 50:19

20Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.Select Psalms 50:20

21These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.Select Psalms 50:21

22Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.Select Psalms 50:22

23He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!Select Psalms 50:23