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Psalm 50 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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PSALM 50
God the Righteous Judge
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 The Mighty One, God the LORD,
​​Has spoken and called the earth
​​From the rising of the sun to its going down.
2 ​​Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
​​God will shine forth.
3 ​​Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;
​​A fire shall devour before Him,
​​And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.
​
4 ​​He shall call to the heavens from above,
​​And to the earth, that He may judge His people:
5 ​​“Gather My saints together to Me,
​​Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
6 ​​Let the heavens declare His righteousness,
​​For God Himself is Judge. Selah
​
7 ​​“Hear, O My people, and I will speak,
​​O Israel, and I will testify against you;
​​I am God, your God!
8 ​​I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices
​​Or your burnt offerings,
​​Which are continually before Me.
9 ​​I will not take a bull from your house,
​​Nor goats out of your folds.
10 ​​For every beast of the forest is Mine,
​​And the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 ​​I know all the birds of the mountains,
​​And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
​
12 ​​“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
​​For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
13 ​​Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
​​Or drink the blood of goats?
14 ​​Offer to God thanksgiving,
​​And pay your vows to the Most High.
15 ​​Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
​​I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”
​
16 ​​But to the wicked God says:
​​“What right have you to declare My statutes,
​​Or take My covenant in your mouth,
17 ​​Seeing you hate instruction
​​And cast My words behind you?
18 ​​When you saw a thief, you consented[fn] with him,
​​And have been a partaker with adulterers.
19 ​​You give your mouth to evil,
​​And your tongue frames deceit.
20 ​​You sit and speak against your brother;
​​You slander your own mother’s son.
21 ​​These things you have done, and I kept silent;
​​You thought that I was altogether like you;
​​But I will rebuke you,
​​And set them in order before your eyes.
​
22 ​​“Now consider this, you who forget God,
​​Lest I tear you in pieces,
​​And there be none to deliver:
23 ​​Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;
​​And to him who orders his conduct aright
​​I will show the salvation of God.”
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read ran.
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