Psa50

Psalms – Chapter 50

¹A psalm of Asaph.

I

The God of gods, the LORD,

has spoken and summoned the earth

from the rising of the sun to its setting.

²From Zion, the perfection of beauty,

God shines forth.

³Our God comes and will not be silent!

Devouring fire precedes him,

it rages strongly around him.

⁴He calls to the heavens above

and to the earth to judge his people:

⁵“Gather my loyal ones to me,

those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶The heavens proclaim his righteousness,

for God himself is the judge.

Selah

II

⁷“Listen, my people, I will speak;

Israel, I will testify against you;

God, your God, am I.

⁸Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,

your burnt offerings are always before me.

⁹I will not take a bullock from your house,

or he-goats from your folds.

¹⁰For every animal of the forest is mine,

beasts by the thousands on my mountains.

¹¹I know every bird in the heights;

whatever moves in the wild is mine.

¹²Were I hungry, I would not tell you,

for mine is the world and all that fills it.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls

or drink the blood of he-goats?

¹⁴Offer praise as your sacrifice to God;

fulfill your vows to the Most High.

¹⁵Then call on me on the day of distress;

I will rescue you, and you shall honor me.”

III

¹⁶But to the wicked God says:

“Why do you recite my commandments

and profess my covenant with your mouth?

¹⁷You hate discipline;

you cast my words behind you!

¹⁸If you see a thief, you run with him;

with adulterers you throw in your lot.

¹⁹You give your mouth free rein for evil;

you yoke your tongue to deceit.

²⁰You sit and speak against your brother,

slandering your mother’s son.

²¹When you do these things should I be silent?

Do you think that I am like you?

I accuse you, I lay out the matter before your eyes.

IV

²²“Now understand this, you who forget God,

lest I start ripping apart and there be no rescuer.

²³Those who offer praise as a sacrifice honor me;

I will let him whose way is steadfast

look upon the salvation of God.”

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THE REVISED NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)