50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down of it.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.
50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent: A fire devours before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
50:4 He calls to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people:
50:5 Gather my saints together to me, Those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
50:6 And the heavens will declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. Selah.
50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify to you: I am God, [even] your God.
50:8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; And your burnt-offerings are continually before me.
50:9 I will take no bull out of your house, Nor he-goats out of your folds.
50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
50:13 Shall I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay your vows to the Most High:
50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.
50:16 But to the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, And that you have taken my covenant in your mouth,
50:17 Seeing you hate instruction, And cast my words behind you?
50:18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers.
50:19 You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit.
50:20 You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
50:21 These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: [But] I will reprove you, and set [them] in order before your eyes.
50:22 Now consider this, you+ who forget God, Or else I will tear you+ in pieces, and there will be none to deliver:
50:23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me; And to him who orders his way [aright] I will show the salvation of God.