Psalm 50 [Douay 49]

Psalm 50 in modern numbering

¹ The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

³ Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

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

⁵ “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶ The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

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

⁸ I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹ I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

¹⁰ For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

¹¹ I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

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

¹³ Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

¹⁵ Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

¹⁷ since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

¹⁹ “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

²¹ You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

²² “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

²³ Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

¹ AA psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

² Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

³ God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.

⁴ He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.

⁵ Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

⁷ Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

⁹ I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

¹⁰ For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

¹¹ I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.

¹² If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

¹³ Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹⁶ But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

¹⁷ Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

¹⁸ If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.

¹⁹ Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

²⁰ Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:

²¹ These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

²² Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

²³ The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.