The Psalms

chapter 50


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verse #1

A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.


verse #2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.


verse #3

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.


verse #4

He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:


verse #5

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”


verse #6

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.


verse #7

“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.


verse #8

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.


verse #9

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.


verse #10

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.


verse #11

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.


verse #12

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.


verse #13

Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?


verse #14

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.


verse #15

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”


verse #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,


verse #17

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?


verse #18

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.


verse #19

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.


verse #20

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.


verse #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.


verse #22

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.


verse #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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