A Psalm by Asaph.

50:1 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,

and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

God shines forth.

50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent.

A fire devours before him.

It is very stormy around him.

50:4 He calls to the heavens above,

to the earth, that he may judge his people:

50:5 "Gather my saints together to me,

those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

50:6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness,

for God himself is judge.

Selah.

50:7 "Hear, my people, and I will speak;

Israel, and I will testify against you.

I am God, your God.

50:8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices.

Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

50:9 I have no need for a bull from your stall,

nor male goats from your pens.

50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine,

and the livestock on a thousand hills.

50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains.

The wild animals of the field are mine.

50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,

for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls,

or drink the blood of goats?

50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

Pay your vows to the Most High.

50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble.

I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

50:16 But to the wicked God says,

"What right do you have to declare my statutes,

that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

50:17 seeing you hate instruction,

and throw my words behind you?

50:18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him,

and have participated with adulterers.

50:19 "You give your mouth to evil.

Your tongue frames deceit.

50:20 You sit and speak against your brother.

You slander your own mother's son.

50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent.

You thought that the I was just like you.

I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

50:22 "Now consider this, you who forget God,

lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

50:23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,

and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."