Psalms 50:1
A Psalm. Of Asaph. *God, Elohim-Jehovah, 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 forth.
Psalms 50:3
Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms 50:4
He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
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Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!
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And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.
Psalms 50:7
Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
Psalms 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, 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, the cattle upon a thousand hills;
Psalms 50:11
I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures 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
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 50:14
Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;
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And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,
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Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?
Psalms 50:18
When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
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Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
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Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
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These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether 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 in pieces, and there be no deliverer.
Psalms 50:23
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth his way will I shew the salvation of God.