Psalm 50 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God the Judge of the Righteous and the Wicked.

Psa 50:1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Psa 50:2

Psa 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Psa 50:3

Psa 50:3Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.

Psa 50:4

Psa 50:4He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

Psa 50:5

Psa 50:5"Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"

Psa 50:6

Psa 50:6The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah

Psa 50:7

Psa 50:7"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Psa 50:8

Psa 50:8I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Psa 50:9

Psa 50:9I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.

Psa 50:10

Psa 50:10For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

Psa 50:11

Psa 50:11I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.

Psa 50:12

Psa 50:12"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.

Psa 50:13

Psa 50:13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psa 50:14

Psa 50:14Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;

Psa 50:15

Psa 50:15and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

Psa 50:16

Psa 50:16But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?

Psa 50:17

Psa 50:17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Psa 50:18

Psa 50:18If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.

Psa 50:19

Psa 50:19"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Psa 50:20

Psa 50:20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Psa 50:21

Psa 50:21These 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.

Psa 50:22

Psa 50:22"Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!

Psa 50:23

Psa 50:23He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"

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Psalm 50 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God the Judge of the Righteous and the Wicked.

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