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Psalms 50
A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken:
and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the
sun, to the going down thereof:
out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall
not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and
a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge
his people.
Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant
before sacrifices.
And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is
judge.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I
will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy
burnt offerings are always in my sight.
I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats
out of thy flocks.
For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle
on the hills, and the oxen.
I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the
beauty of the field.
If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the
world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink
the blood of goats?
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows
to the most High.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver
thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare
my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth ?
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my
words behind thee.
If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and
with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed
deceits.
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst
lay a scandal against thy mother's son:
these things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou
thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but
I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he
snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there
is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of
God. |