Psalms 50
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PSALM 50
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Meter: 6,6,8,6
A Psalm of Asaph.
1The mighty God, the Lord,
hath spoken, and did call
The earth, from rising of the sun,
to where he hath his fall.
2From out of Sion hill,
which of excellency
And beauty the perfection is,
God shined gloriously.
3Our God shall surely come,
keep silence shall not he:
Before him fire shall waste, great storms
shall round about him be.
4Unto the heavens clear
he from above shall call,
And to the earth likewise, that he
may judge his people all.
5Together let my saints
unto me gather'd be,
Those that by sacrifice have made
a covenant with me.
6And then the heavens shall
his righteousness declare:
Because the Lord himself is he
by whom men judged are.
7My people Isr'el hear,
speak will I from on high,
Against thee I will testify;
God, ev'n thy God, am I.
8I for thy sacrifice
no blame will on thee lay,
Nor for burnt-off 'rings, which to me
thou offer'dst ev'ry day.
9I'll take no calf nor goats
from house or fold of thine:
10For beasts of forests, cattle all
on thousand hills, are mine.
11The fowls on mountains high
are all to me well known;
Wild beasts which in the fields do lie,
ev'n they are all mine own.
12Then, if I hungry were,
I would not tell it thee;
Because the world, and fulness all
thereof, belongs to me.
13Will I eat flesh of bulls?
or goats' blood drink will I?
14Thanks offer thou to God, and pay
thy vows to the most High.
15And call upon me when
in trouble thou shalt be;
I will deliver thee, and thou
my name shalt glorify.
16But to the wicked man
God saith, My laws and truth
Should'st thou declare? how dar'st thou take
my cov'nant in thy mouth?
17Sith thou instruction hat'st,
which should thy ways direct;
And sith my words behind thy back
thou cast'st, and dost reject.
18When thou a thief didst see,
with him thou didst consent;
And with the vile adulterers
partaker on thou went.
19Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill,
thy tongue deceit doth frame;
20Thou sitt'st, and 'gainst thy brother speak'st,
thy mother's son dost shame.
21Because I silence kept,
while thou these things hast wrought;
That I was altogether like
thyself, hath been thy thought;
Yet I will thee reprove,
and set before thine eyes,
In order ranked, thy misdeeds
and thine iniquities.
22Now, ye that God forget,
this carefully consider;
Lest I in pieces tear you all,
and none can you deliver.
23Whoso doth offer praise
me glorifies; and I
Will shew him God's salvation,
that orders right his way.
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Psalms 50
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Psalm 50
The Acceptable Sacrifice
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 #
Josh 22.22
The mighty one, God the Lord,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 #
Deut 33.2; Ps 48.2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
3 #
Ps 96.13; 97.3; Dan 7.10 Our God comes and does not keep silent;
before him is a devouring fire
and a mighty tempest all around him.
4 #
Deut 4.26; Isa 1.2 He calls to the heavens above
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 #
v 8
; Ex 24.7“Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
6 #
Ps 75.7; 89.5 The heavens declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge. Selah
7 #
Ps 81.8
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
8 #
Ps 40.6; Hos 6.6 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 #
Ps 69.31
I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.
10 #
Ps 104.24
For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the air,#50.11 Gk Syr Tg: Heb mountains
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 #
Ex 19.5
“If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and all that is in it is mine.
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14 #
Deut 23.21; Heb 13.15 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,#50.14 Or make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God
and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 #
Ps 81.7; 91.15 Call on me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
16 #
Isa 29.13
But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
17 #
Neh 9.26; Rom 2.21, 22 For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.
18 #
1 Tim 5.22
You make friends with a thief when you see one,
and you keep company with adulterers.
19You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
20 #
Mt 10.21
You sit and speak against your kin;
you slander your own mother’s child.
21 #
Eccl 8.11
These things you have done, and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one just like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
22 #
Job 8.13; Ps 7.2; 9.17 Mark this, then, you who forget God,
or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.
23Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me;
to those who go the right way,#50.23 Heb who set a way
I will show the salvation of God.”
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