The Psalms

Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.

 ^50:1The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken,

 And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

 ^50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

 God hath shined forth.

 ^50:3Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence:

 A fire devoureth before him,

 And it is very tempestuous round about him.

 ^50:4He calleth to the heavens above,

 And to the earth, that he may judge his people:

 ^50:5Gather my saints together unto me,

 Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

 ^50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness;

 For God is judge himself.

Selah

 ^50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak;

 O Israel, and I will testify unto thee:

 I am God, even thy God.

 ^50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;

 And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

 ^50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house,

 Nor he-goats out of thy folds.

 ^50:10For every beast of the forest is mine,

 And the cattle upon a thousand hills.

 ^50:11I know all the birds of the mountains;

 And the wild beasts of the field are mine.

 ^50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;

 For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

 ^50:13Will I eat the flesh of bulls,

 Or drink the blood of goats?

 ^50:14Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving;

 And pay thy vows unto the Most High:

 ^50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble;

 I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

 ^50:16But unto the wicked God saith,

 What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,

 And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,

 ^50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction,

 And castest my words behind thee?

 ^50:18When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him,

 And hast been partaker with adulterers.

 ^50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil,

 And thy tongue frameth deceit.

 ^50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;

 Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

 ^50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;

 Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself:

 But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

  ^50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God,

 Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

 ^50:23Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me;

 And to him that ordereth his way aright

 Will I show the salvation of God.