Psalms 50

¹ A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

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

³ Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about 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.

⁸ I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹ I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.

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

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

¹² "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.

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

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

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

¹⁶ But 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.

¹⁸ If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.

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

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

²¹ These 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 rend, and there be none to deliver!

²³ He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"