50:1 The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. |
50:3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him. |
50:4 He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people: |
50:5 Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. Selah |
50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, `even' thy God. |
50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me. |
50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds. |
50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. |
50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? |
50:14 Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High: |
50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. |
50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth, |
50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee? |
50:18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers. |
50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit. |
50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. |
50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: `But' I will reprove thee, and set `them' in order before thine eyes. |
50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver: |
50:23 Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way `aright' Will I show the salvation of God. Psalm 51 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. |