PSALMS
CHAPTER 50

A psalm of Asaph.

¹ The Mighty One, God, the LORD ,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.
² From Zion, perfect in beauty,
God shines forth.
³ Our God comes and will not be silent;
a fire devours before him,
and around him a tempest rages.
⁴ He summons the heavens above,
and the earth, that he may judge his people:
⁵ "Gather to me my consecrated ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
⁶ And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
Selah

⁷ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will testify against you:
I am God, your God.
⁸ I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
⁹ I have no need of a bull from your stall
or of goats from your pens,
¹⁰ for every animal of the forest is mine,
and the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know every bird in the mountains,
and the creatures of the field are mine.
¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴ Sacrifice thank offerings to God,
fulfill your vows to the Most High,
¹⁵ and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

¹⁶ But to the wicked, God says:

"What right have you to recite my laws
or take my covenant on your lips?
¹⁷ You hate my instruction
and cast my words behind you.
¹⁸ When you see a thief, you join with him;
you throw in your lot with adulterers.
¹⁹ You use your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit.
²⁰ You speak continually against your brother
and slander your own mother's son.
²¹ These things you have done and I kept silent;
you thought I was altogether ^[1] like you.
But I will rebuke you
and accuse you to your face.

²² "Consider this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue:
²³ He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me,
and he prepares the way
so that I may show him ^[2] the salvation of God."

Footnotes

1. 50:21 Or thought the ' I am ' was
2. 50:23 Or and to him who considers his way / I will show

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