| Chapter 50 |
1 | A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. |
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 shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. |
5 | Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
6 | And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah. |
7 | Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God. |
8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me. |
9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of thy folds. |
10 | For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
11 | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine. |
12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof. |
13 | Will 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: |
15 | And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify 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? |
17 | Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. |
18 | When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. |
19 | Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. |
20 | Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. |
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 | Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver. |
23 | Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God. |