Psalms 50 A Psalm to Asaph. ¶ The God of gods, even the LORD, has spoken and convocated the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

EJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A Psalm to Asaph. ¶ The God of gods, even the LORD, has spoken and convocated the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. ² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth. 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 convocate the heavens of above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. ⁵ Gather my merciful ones together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. ⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is the judge. 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 regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are 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 with me. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine and the fullness thereof. ¹³ Must I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ Sacrifice praise unto God 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 part hast thou to declare my statutes or that thou should take my covenant in thy mouth? ¹⁷ Seeing thou dost hate chastening and dost cast my words behind thee. ¹⁸ When thou didst see a thief, then thou didst consent with him and hast been partaker with adulterers. ¹⁹ Thou didst give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit. ²⁰ Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother’s son. ²¹ These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou didst think that I was altogether such a 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 take you away, and there be none to deliver. ²³ Whosoever sacrifices praise glorifies me; and to him that orders his ways aright I will show the salvation of God.