Psalms

Chapter 49

  1. 1

    A 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. 2

    Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

  3. 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. 4

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

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

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

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

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

  9. 9

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

  10. 10

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

  11. 11

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

  12. 12

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

  13. 13

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

  14. 14

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

  15. 15

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

  16. 16

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

  17. 17

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

  18. 18

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

  19. 19

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

  20. 20

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

  21. 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. 22

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

  23. 23

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