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Psalms 49
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1(50) A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof].
1The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.
3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
4He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5Assemble you⌃ his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
5Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge . Pause.
6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
7Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God.
7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
8I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.
8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he -goats out of your flocks.
9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
10For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.
14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
15And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. Pause.
15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?
16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind [you].
17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.
18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.
19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.
20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
21These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, [but] I will reprove you, and set [your offenses] before you.
21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
22Now consider these things, you⌃ that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there is no deliverer.
22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.
23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.