The Psalms (WEB)

Psalm 50

A Psalm by Asaph.

 ^50:1The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
      And calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

 ^50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
      God shines forth.

 ^50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
      A fire devours before him.
      It is very tempestuous around him.

 ^50:4He 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."

 ^50:6The 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.

 ^50:8I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices.
      Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

 ^50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall,
      Nor male goats from your pens.

 ^50:10For every animal of the forest is mine,
      And the cattle on a thousand hills.

 ^50:11I know all the birds of the mountains.
      The wild animals of the field are mine.

 ^50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
      For the world is mine, and all that is in it.

 ^50:13Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
      Or drink the blood of goats?

 ^50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
      Pay your vows to the Most High.

 ^50:15Call on me in the day of trouble.
      I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

  ^50:16But to the wicked God says,
      "What right do you have to declare my statutes,
      That you have taken my covenant on your lips,
      ^50:17Seeing you hate instruction,
      And throw my words behind you?

 ^50:18When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
      And have participated with adulterers.

 ^50:19"You give your mouth to evil.
      You harnesses your tongue for deceit.

 ^50:20You sit and speak against your brother.
      You slander your own mother's son.

 ^50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent.
      You thought that the "I AM" 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.

 ^50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
      And prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."

World English Bible