Psalms 50:1-15

¹“A psalm of Assaph.” The God of gods, the Lord, speaketh, and calleth the earth, from the rising of the sun unto his setting.

²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shineth forth.

³Our God is coming, and will not keep silence: a fire devoureth before him, and round him there rageth a mighty storm.

⁴He will call to the heavens above, and to the earth, to judge his people.

⁵“Gather together unto me my pious servants, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶And the heavens tell of his righteousness; for God is judge himself. Selah.

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

⁸Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

⁹I will not take a bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

¹⁰For mine are all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.

¹¹I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?

¹⁴Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;

¹⁵And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,— and so wilt thou glorify me.”