Psalms 50

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 [Psalm Of Asaph] The God of gods, Yahweh, is speaking, from east to west he summons the earth.	1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 From Zion, perfection of beauty, he shines forth;	2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 he is coming, our God, and wil not be silent. Devouring fire ahead of him, raging tempest around him,	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.
4 he summons the heavens from on high, and the earth to judge his people.	4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 'Gather to me my faithful, who sealed my covenant by sacrifice.'	5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 The heavens proclaim his saving justice, 'God himself is judge.'Pause	6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
7 'Listen, my people, I am speaking, Israel, I am giving evidence against you, I, God, your God.	7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
8 'It is not with your sacrifices that I find fault, those burnt offerings constantly before me;	8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9 I will not accept any bul from your homes, nor a single goat from your folds.	9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
10 'For all forest creatures are mine already, the animals on the mountains in their thousands.	10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know every bird in the air, whatever moves in the fields is mine.	11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 'If I am hungry I shall not tel you, since the world and all it holds is mine.	12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Am I to eat the flesh of bul s or drink the blood of goats?	13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 'Let thanksgiving be your sacrifice to God, fulfil the vows you make to the Most High;	14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
15 then if you call to me in time of trouble I wil rescue you and you wil honour 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: 'What right have you to recite my statutes, to take my covenant on yourlips,	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?
17 when you detest my teaching, and thrust my words behind you?	17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 'You make friends with a thief as soon as you see one, you feel at home with adulterers,	18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19 your conversation is devoted to wickedness, and your tongue to inventing lies.	19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 'You sit there, slandering your own brother, you malign your own mother's son.	20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
21 You do this, and am I to say nothing? Do you think that I am really like you? I charge you, indict youto your face.	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.
22 'Think it out, you who forget God, or I wil tear you apart without hope of a rescuer.	22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 Honour to me is a sacrifice of thanksgiving; to the upright I wil show God's salvation.'	23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.