Psalms 50: 1 - 23
A Psalm by Asaph. |
1The Mighty One, God, The LORD, speaks, |
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. |
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, |
God shines out. |
3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. |
A fire devours before him. |
It is very stormy around him. |
4He calls to the heavens above, |
to the earth, that he may judge his people: |
5“Gather my saints together to me, |
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” |
6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, |
for God himself is judge. Selah. |
7“Hear, my people, and I will speak. |
Israel, I will testify against you. |
I am God, your God. |
8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. |
Your burnt offerings are continually before me. |
9I have no need for a bull from your stall, |
nor male goats from your pens. |
10For every animal of the forest is mine, |
and the livestock on a thousand hills. |
11I know all the birds of the mountains. |
The wild animals of the field are mine. |
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, |
for the world is mine, and all that is in it. |
13Will I eat the meat of bulls, |
or drink the blood of goats? |
14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. |
Pay your vows to the Most High. |
15Call on me in the day of trouble. |
I will deliver you, and you will honour me.” |
16But to the wicked God says, |
“What right do you have to declare my statutes, |
that you have taken my covenant on your lips, |
17since you hate instruction, |
and throw my words behind you? |
18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, |
and have participated with adulterers. |
19“You give your mouth to evil. |
Your tongue frames deceit. |
20You sit and speak against your brother. |
You slander your own mother’s son. |
21You 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. |
22“Now consider this, you who forget God, |
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver. |
23Whoever 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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