Psalms 49
Psalms 50
A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 50:1. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Psalms 50:2. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Psalms 50:3. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms 50:4. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Psalms 50:5. Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Psalms 50:6. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Psalms 50:7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Psalms 50:8. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psalms 50:9. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Psalms 50:10. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:12. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 50:13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 50:14. Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psalms 50:15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms 50:16. 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?
Psalms 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Psalms 50:18. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psalms 50:20. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms 50:21. 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.
Psalms 50:22. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Psalms 50:23. Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms 51