PSALM 50

The Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:1 The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Psalm 50:3 Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.

Psalm 50:4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

Psalm 50:5 “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

Psalm 50:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge!

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

Psalm 50:8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Psalm 50:9 I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.

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

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

Psalm 50:12“If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.

Psalm 50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 50:14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;

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

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

Psalm 50:17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Psalm 50:18 If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.

Psalm 50:19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

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

Psalm 50:21 These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

Psalm 50:22 “Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear, and there be none to deliver!

Psalm 50:23 He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!”