Psalm 50	 	
Ps. 50:0   A psalm of Asaph.

Ps. 50:1   The Mighty One (El), God the LORD speaks
		      and summons the earth
		      from the rising of the sun to its setting.
		
Ps. 50:2 	From Zion, the perfection of beauty,
			God shines forth.	

Ps. 50:3   Our God comes and does not keep silent;
			fire before him devours, 
			around him a mighty tempest.	

Ps. 50:4   He summons the heavens above,
			and the earth, to testify against the people:

Ps. 50:5   	“Gather to me my faithful ones,
			who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
		
Ps. 50:6   The heavens declare his righteousness,
			for God himself is judge! 
												Selah	

Ps. 50:7   “Hear, my people, and I will speak;
		  	 and I will testify against you, Israel. 
			 I am God, your God.

Ps. 50:8    I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices;
		       and your burnt offerings with are continually before 			     me.

Ps. 50:9   	I will not take a bull from your house
			or goats from your folds.

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

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

Ps. 50:12  “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
			  for the world and its fullness are mine.

Ps. 50:13  Do I eat the flesh of bulls
			 or drink the blood of goats?

Ps. 50:14  Offer to God a thank-offering,
			  and fulfill your vows to the Most High,

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

Ps. 50:16  But to the wicked God says:
			 “What right have you to recite my statutes
			 or take my covenant on your lips?

Ps. 50:17  For you hate instruction
		      and cast my words behind you.
	
Ps. 50:18  If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
			 and you keep company with adulterers.

Ps. 50:19  Your mouth [words] you send with evil,
			  and use your tongue to deceive.

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

Ps. 50:21  These things you have done, and I have been 					     silent,
			 so you thought that I was one like you.
			 But now I will condemn you and lay the charge before 				you.

Ps. 50:22  “Now understand this, you who forget God,
			  lest I tear you apart, and there be no one to 					          deliver!

Ps. 50:23  Whoever presents a thank-offering glorifies me,
			 and sets a way [for God],
			 I will show the salvation of God.