Psm50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Psm50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psm50:3 Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
Psm50:4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Psm50:5 'Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!'
Psm50:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]
Psm50:7 'Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Psm50:8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices;your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psm50:9 I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
Psm50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psm50:11 I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
Psm50:12 'If I were hungry, I would not tell you;for the world and all that is in it is mine.
Psm50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psm50:14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
Psm50:15 and call upon me in the day of trouble;I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.'
Psm50:16 But to the wicked God says: 'What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
Psm50:17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
Psm50:18 If you see a thief, you are a friend of his;and you keep company with adulterers.
Psm50:19 'You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Psm50:20 You sit and speak against your brother;you slander your own mother's son.
Psm50:21 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.
Psm50:22 'Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
Psm50:23 He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me;to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!'