Psalm 50:1WEB
The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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Psalm 50:1WEB
The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 50:2WEB
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
Psalm 50:3WEB
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
Psalm 50:4WEB
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Psalm 50:5WEB
“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
Psalm 50:6WEB
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
Psalm 50:7WEB
“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Psalm 50:8WEB
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalm 50:9WEB
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
Psalm 50:10WEB
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
Psalm 50:11WEB
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
Psalm 50:12WEB
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Psalm 50:13WEB
Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalm 50:14WEB
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
Psalm 50:15WEB
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Psalm 50:16WEB
But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
Psalm 50:17WEB
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psalm 50:18WEB
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalm 50:19WEB
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Psalm 50:20WEB
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Psalm 50:21WEB
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
Psalm 50:22WEB
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Psalm 50:23WEB
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.