Psalms
(A psalm of Asaph’s.)
50 Deity, God, Jehovah has spoken
and called earth from sunrise land to sunset.
2 Out of Sion, perfection of beauty,
God has beamed.
4 Calling to the skies above
and to the earth to pronounce the verdict for his people,
5 “Bring together to me the men of my friendship,
those who have entered into covenant with me over a sacrifice,”
6 That the skies may report his right-doing,
that he is a judging God. (Selah)
8 I will not reprove you over your sacrifices,
and I have your burnt-offerings constantly before me;
9 I will not take a steer out of your house
nor he-goats out of your pens,
10 For all the wild things of the bush belong to me,
beasts on mountains where thousands dwell.
11 I know all birds of the mountains
and have in my mind the insects of the fields.
12 If I should grow hungry I would not tell you,
because I have the world and all that fills it.
13 Am I to eat bulls’ flesh
and drink he-goats’ blood?
14 Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God
and make good your vows to the Most High,
15 And call on me in a day of distress;
I will rescue you and you shall glorify me.
16 What business of yours is it to tell off my usages
and take my covenant into your mouth
17 When yourself you hate lessons
and throw my words behind you,
18 If you see a thief you say amen to him
and you are participant with adulterers,
19 You have put your mouth to vicious use
and your tongue is hitching up fraud,
20 You sit talking about your brother,
defaming your mother’s son?
21 These things you have done, and was I to keep silence?
You imagined I was positively like you;
I will arraign you and bring on the evidence before your eyes.
22 Understand this, forgetters of God,
for fear I should make a pounce from which nobody would deliver you:
23 He who makes thanksgiving his sacrifice is paying me honor,
and to him who holds to his course I will give the sight of God’s salvation.”