RSV Psalms 50 Chapter
50:1
A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
50:3
Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
50:4
He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
50:5
'Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!'
50:6
The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]
50:7
'Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
50:8
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices;your burnt offerings are continually before me.
50:9
I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
50:11
I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
50:12
'If I were hungry, I would not tell you;for the world and all that is in it is mine.
50:13
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
50:14
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
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and call upon me in the day of trouble;I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.'
50:16
But to the wicked God says: 'What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
50:17
For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
50:18
If you see a thief, you are a friend of his;and you keep company with adulterers.
50:19
'You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
50:20
You sit and speak against your brother;you slander your own mother's son.
50:21
These things you have done and I have been silent;you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
50:22
'Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
50:23
He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me;to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!'