[[Psalm 49|<< Psalm 49]] | [[Psalms|Psalms]] | [[Psalm 51|Psalm 51 >>]] ### Psalm 50 > A Psalm of Asaph. 1 THE mighty God, _even_ the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. ^1 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined. ^2 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. ^3 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. ^4 5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. ^5 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God _is_ judge himself. Selah. ^6 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I _am_ God, _even_ thy God. ^7 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, _to_ _have_ _been_ continually before me. ^8 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, _nor_ he goats out of thy folds. ^9 10 For every beast of the forest _is_ mine, _and_ the cattle upon a thousand hills. ^10 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field _are_ mine. ^11 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world _is_ mine, and the fullness thereof. ^12 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ^13 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: ^14 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. ^15 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or _that_ thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? ^16 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. ^17 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. ^18 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit. ^19 20 Thou sittest _and_ speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. ^20 21 These _things_ hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether _such_ _an_ _one_ as thyself: _but_ I will reprove thee, and set _them_ in order before thine eyes. ^21 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear _you_ in pieces, and _there_ _be_ none to deliver. ^22 23 Whoso offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders _his_ conversation _aright_ will I show the salvation of God. ^23