Psalms 50

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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.	1 A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
2 From Zion God shines forth. perfect in beauty.	2 out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
3 Our God comes and will not be silent! Devouring fire precedes, storming fiercely round about.	3 God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
4 God summons the heavens above and the earth to the judgment of his people:	4 He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
5 "Gather my faithful ones before me, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."	5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
6 The heavens proclaim divine justice, for God alone is the judge. Selah	6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
7 "Listen, my people, I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; God, your God, am I.	7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you, nor for your holocausts, set before me daily.	8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
9 I need no bullock from your house, no goats from your fold.	9 I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
10 For every animal of the forest is mine, beasts by the thousands on my mountains.	10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
11 I know every bird of the heavens; the creatures of the field belong to me.	11 I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for mine is the world and all that fills it.	12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?	13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer praise as your sacrifice to God; fulfill your vows to the Most High.	14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
15 Then call on me in time of distress; I will rescue you, and you shall honor me."	15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 But to the wicked God says: "Why do you recite my commandments and profess my covenant with your lips?	16 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth ?
17 You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!	17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
18 When you see thieves, you befriend them; with adulterers you throw in your lot.	18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
19 You give your mouth free rein for evil; you harness your tongue to deceit.	19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
20 You sit maligning your own kin, slandering the child of your own mother.	20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:
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.	21 these things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
22 "Understand this, you who forget God, lest I attack you with no one to rescue.	22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
23 Those who offer praise as a sacrifice honor me; to the obedient I will show the salvation of God."	23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.