Psalms, 50
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0. A Psalm of Asaph.
1. [Psalm Of Asaph] The God of gods, Yahweh, is speaking, from east to west he summons the earth.
1. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2. From Zion, perfection of beauty, he shines forth;
2. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3. he is coming, our God, and will not be silent. Devouring fire ahead of him, raging tempest around him,
3. Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
4. he summons the heavens from on high, and the earth to judge his people.
4. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5. 'Gather to me my faithful, who sealed my covenant by sacrifice.'
5. "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
6. The heavens proclaim his saving justice, 'God himself is judge.'Pause
6. The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]
7. 'Listen, my people, I am speaking, Israel, I am giving evidence against you, I, God, your God.
7. "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8. 'It is not with your sacrifices that I find fault, those burnt offerings constantly before me;
8. I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9. I will not accept any bull from your homes, nor a single goat from your folds.
9. I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
10. 'For all forest creatures are mine already, the animals on the mountains in their thousands.
10. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
11. I know every bird in the air, whatever moves in the fields is mine.
11. I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
12. 'If I am hungry I shall not tell you, since the world and all it holds is mine.
12. "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
13. Am I to eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
13. Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14. 'Let thanksgiving be your sacrifice to God, fulfil the vows you make to the Most High;
14. Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
15. then if you call to me in time of trouble I will rescue you and you will honour me.'
15. and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
16. But to the wicked, God says: 'What right have you to recite my statutes, to take my covenant on your lips,
16. But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
17. when you detest my teaching, and thrust my words behind you?
17. For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
18. 'You make friends with a thief as soon as you see one, you feel at home with adulterers,
18. If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.
19. your conversation is devoted to wickedness, and your tongue to inventing lies.
19. "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20. 'You sit there, slandering your own brother, you malign your own mother's son.
20. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
21. You do this, and am I to say nothing? Do you think that I am really like you? I charge you, indict you to your face.
21. These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
22. 'Think it out, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart without hope of a rescuer.
22. "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
23. Honour to me is a sacrifice of thanksgiving; to the upright I will show God's salvation.'
23. He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"
