AB - Psalms - 50

50:1  The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down.

50:2  Out of Zion comes the excellence of His beauty.

50:3  God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silent; a fire shall be kindled before Him, and round about Him there shall be a very great tempest.

50:4  He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that He may judge His people.

50:5  Assemble His saints to Him, those that have engaged in a covenant with Him upon sacrifices.

50:6  And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge. Pause.

50:7  Hear, My people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you; I am God, your God.

50:8  I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before Me continually.

50:9  I will take no bulls out of your house, nor male goats out of your flocks.

50:10  For all the wild beasts of the thicket are Mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

50:11  I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is Mine.

50:12  If I should be hungry, I will not tell you; for the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

50:13  Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

50:14  Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

50:15  And call upon Me in the day of affliction; and I shall deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. Pause.

50:16  But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare My ordinances, and take up My covenant in your mouth?

50:17  Seeing you have hated instruction, and have cast My words behind you.

50:18  If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.

50:19  Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.

50:20  You sat and spoke against your brother, and scandalized your mother's son.

50:21  These things you did, and I kept silent; you thought wickedly that I should be like you, but I will reprove you, and set your offenses before you.

50:22  Now consider these things, all you that forget God, lest He tear you, and there be none to deliver.

50:23  The sacrifice of praise will glorify Me; and that is the way in which I will show to him the salvation of God.