Psalm Chapter 50 Back NextPsalm 50 A Psalm by
Asaph.
{50:1} The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the
earth from sunrise to sunset.
{50:2} Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
{50:3} Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A
fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
{50:4} He calls to the
heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
{50:5} "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice."
{50:6} The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
{50:7} "Hear, my people, and I will speak;
Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
{50:8} I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your
burnt offerings are continually before me.
{50:9} I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male
goats from your pens.
{50:10} For every animal of the
forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand
hills.
{50:11} I know all the
birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the
field are mine.
{50:12} If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
{50:13} Will I eat the
flesh of bulls, or
drink the
blood of goats?
{50:14} Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
{50:15} Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
{50:16} But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
{50:17} since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
{50:18} When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
{50:19} "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
{50:20} You sit and speak against your
brother. You slander your own mother's son.
{50:21} 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.
{50:22} "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
{50:23} Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."
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