New American Standard Bible PSALMS 50

God the Judge of the Righteous and the Wicked.

A Psalm of AAsaph.

1 AThe Mighty One, God, the Loʀᴅ, has spoken,

And summoned the earth Bfrom the rising of the sun to its setting.

2 Out of Zion, Athe perfection of beauty,

God Bhas shone forth.

3 May our God Acome and not keep silence;

BFire devours before Him,

And it is very Ctempestuous around Him.

4 He Asummons the heavens above,

And the earth, to judge His people:

5 “Gather My Agodly ones to Me,

Those who have made a Bcovenant with Me by Csacrifice.”

6 And the Aheavens declare His righteousness,

For BGod Himself is judge. 1Selah.

7 “AHear, O My people, and I will speak;

O Israel, I will testify 1against you;

I am God, Byour God.

8 “I do Anot reprove you for your sacrifices,

And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

9 “I shall take no Ayoung bull out of your house

Nor male goats out of your folds.

10 “For Aevery beast of the forest is Mine,

The cattle on a thousand hills.

11 “I know every Abird of the mountains,

And everything that moves in the field is 1Mine.

12 “If I were hungry I would not tell you,

For the Aworld is Mine, and 1all it contains.

13 “Shall I eat the flesh of 1 Abulls

Or drink the blood of male goats?

14 “Offer to God Aa sacrifice of thanksgiving

And Bpay your vows to the Most High;

15 ACall upon Me in the day of trouble;

I shall Brescue you, and you will Chonor Me.”

16 But to the wicked God says,

“What right have you to tell of My statutes

And to take AMy covenant in your mouth?

17 “For you Ahate discipline,

And you Bcast My words behind you.

18 “When you see a thief, you 1 Aare pleased with him,

And 2you Bassociate with adulterers.

19 “You 1 Alet your mouth loose in evil

And your Btongue frames deceit.

20 “You sit and Aspeak against your brother;

You slander your own mother’s son.

21 “These things you have done and AI kept silence;

You thought that I was just like you;

I will Breprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

22 “Now consider this, you who Aforget God,

Or I will Btear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.

23 “He who Aoffers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me;

And to him who 1 Borders his way aright

I shall Cshow the salvation of God.”

A^ 1 Chr 15:17; 2 Chr 29:30

A50:1 Josh 22:22

B50:1 Ps 113:3

A50:2 Ps 48:2; Lam 2:15

B50:2 Deut 33:2; Ps 80:1; 94:1

A50:3 Ps 96:13

B50:3 Lev 10:2; Num 16:35; Ps 97:3; Dan 7:10

C50:3 Ps 18:12, 13

A50:4 Deut 4:26; 31:28; 32:1; Is 1:2

A50:5 Ps 30:4; 37:28; 52:9

B50:5 Ex 24:7; 2 Chr 6:11; Ps 25:10

C50:5 Ps 50:8

A50:6 Ps 89:5; 97:6

B50:6 Ps 75:7; 96:13

150:6 Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interlude

A50:7 Ps 49:1; 81:8

150:7 Or to

B50:7 Ex 20:2; Ps 48:14

A50:8 Ps 40:6; 51:16; Is 1:11; Hos 6:6

A50:9 Ps 69:31

A50:10 Ps 104:24

A50:11 Matt 6:26

150:11 Or in My mind; lit with Me

A50:12 Ex 19:5; Deut 10:14; Ps 24:1; 1 Cor 10:26

150:12 Lit its fullness

150:13 Lit strong ones

A50:13 Ps 50:9

A50:14 Ps 27:6; 69:30; 107:22; 116:17; Hos 14:2; Rom 12:1; Heb 13:15

B50:14 Num 30:2; Deut 23:21; Ps 22:25; 56:12; 61:8; 65:1; 76:11

A50:15 Ps 91:15; 107:6, 13; Zech 13:9

B50:15 Ps 81:7

C50:15 Ps 22:23

A50:16 Is 29:13

A50:17 Prov 5:12; 12:1; Rom 2:21, 22

B50:17 1 Kin 14:9; Neh 9:26

150:18 Some ancient versions read run together

A50:18 Rom 1:32

250:18 Lit your part is with

B50:18 1 Tim 5:22

150:19 Lit send

A50:19 Ps 10:7

B50:19 Ps 36:3; 52:2

A50:20 Job 19:18; Matt 10:21

A50:21 Eccl 8:11; Is 42:14; 57:11

B50:21 Ps 90:8

A50:22 Job 8:13; Ps 9:17

150:23 Lit sets