Psalms 50

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.	1 A psalm of Asaph. The LORD, the God of gods, has spoken and summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.	2 From Zion God shines forth. perfect in beauty.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.	3 Our God comes and will not be silent! Devouring fire precedes, storming fiercely round about.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.	4 God summons the heavens above and the earth to the judgment of his people:
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.	5 "Gather my faithful ones before me, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.	6 The heavens proclaim divine justice, for God alone is the judge. Selah
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.	7 "Listen, my people, I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; God, your God, am I.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.	8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you, nor for your holocausts, set before me daily.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.	9 I need no bullock from your house, no goats from your fold.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.	10 For every animal of the forest is mine, beasts by the thousands on my mountains.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.	11 I know every bird of the heavens; the creatures of the field belong to me.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.	12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for mine is the world and all that fills it.
13 Will I 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 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:	14 Offer praise as your sacrifice to God; fulfill your vows to the Most High.
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.	15 Then call on me in time of distress; I will rescue you, and you shall honor me."
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?	16 But to the wicked God says: "Why do you recite my commandments and profess my covenant with your lips?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.	17 You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.	18 When you see thieves, you befriend them; with adulterers you throw in your lot.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.	19 You give your mouth free rein for evil; you harness your tongue to deceit.
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.	20 You sit maligning your own kin, slandering the child of your own mother.
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.	21 When you do these things should I be silent? Or do you think that I am like you? I accuse you, I lay the charge before you.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.	22 "Understand this, you who forget God, lest I attack you with no one to rescue.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.	23 Those who offer praise as a sacrifice honor me; to the obedient I will show the salvation of God."