Psalms 50
50
Psalm 50
A psalm by Asaph.
1The Lord, the only true God, has spoken.
He has summoned the earth
from where the sun rises to where it sets.
2God shines from Zion,
the perfection of beauty.
3Our God will come and will not remain silent.
A devouring fire is in front of him
and a raging storm around him.
4He summons heaven and earth to judge his people:
5“Gather around me, my godly people
who have made a pledge to me through sacrifices.”
6The heavens announce his righteousness
because God is the judge. Selah
7“Listen, my people, and I will speak.
Listen, Israel, and I will testify against you:
I am God, your God!
8I am not criticizing you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings,
which are always in front of me.
9 ⌞But⌟ I will not accept ⌞another⌟ young bull from your household
or a single male goat from your pens.
10Every creature in the forest,
⌞even⌟ the cattle on a thousand hills, is mine.
11I know every bird in the mountains.
Everything that moves in the fields is mine.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
because the world and all that it contains are mine.
13Do I eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14Bring ⌞your⌟ thanks to God as a sacrifice,
and keep your vows to the Most High.
15Call on me in times of trouble.
I will rescue you, and you will honor me.”
16But God says to wicked people,
“How dare you quote my decrees
and mouth my promises! #50:16 Or “covenant.”
17You hate discipline.
You toss my words behind you.
18When you see a thief, you want to make friends with him.
You keep company with people who commit adultery.
19You let your mouth say anything evil.
Your tongue plans deceit.
20You sit and talk against your own brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
21When you did these things, I remained silent.
⌞That⌟ made you think I was like you.
I will argue my point with you
and lay it all out for you to see.
22Consider this, you people who forget God.
Otherwise, I will tear you to pieces,
and there will be no one left to rescue you.
23Whoever offers thanks as a sacrifice honors me.
I will let everyone who continues in my way
see the salvation that comes from God.”
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Psalms 50
50
A Psalm of Asaph.
1The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.
2From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
3Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
4He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.
5Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
6And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. Selah.
7Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.
8Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
9I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
10For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
11I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
12If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?
14Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.
15And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
16And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
17Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
18If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
19Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
20Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
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.
22Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
23He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
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