Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ The Mighty One, God the Lord,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.

²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.

³Our God comes; he does not keep silence;
before him is a devouring fire,
around him a mighty tempest.

⁴ He calls to the heavens above
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵“Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

⁶ The heavens declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge!

Selah

⁷ “Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.

⁸Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.

¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹ I know all the birds of the hills,
and all that moves in the field is mine.

¹²“If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and its fullness are mine.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and perform your vows to the Most High,

¹⁵and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?

¹⁷ For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.

¹⁸If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
and you keep company with adulterers.

¹⁹“You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.

²⁰You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother’s son.

²¹These 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“Mark this, then, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!

²³The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who orders his way rightly
I will show the salvation of God!”

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