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.