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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 50 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/50.htm" 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href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Mighty One, God the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">speaks and summons the earth</span><br /><span class="indent">from the rising of the sun to its setting.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,</span><br /><span class="indent">God shines forth.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Our God comes; he does not keep silence;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or May our God come, and not keep silence">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">before him is a devouring fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">around him a mighty tempest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He calls to the heavens above</span><br /><span class="indent">and to the earth, that he may judge his people:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Gather to me my faithful ones,</span><br /><span class="indent">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The heavens declare his righteousness,</span><br /><span class="indent">for God himself is judge! <selah>Selah</selah></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Hear, O my people, and I will speak;</span><br /><span class="indent">O Israel, I will testify against you.</span><br /><span class="indent">I am God, your God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;</span><br /><span class="indent">your burnt offerings are continually before me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will not accept a bull from your house</span><br /><span class="indent">or goats from your folds.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For every beast of the forest is mine,</span><br /><span class="indent">the cattle on a thousand hills.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I know all the birds of the hills,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all that moves in the field is mine.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“If I were hungry, I would not tell you,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the world and its fullness are mine.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do I eat the flesh of bulls</span><br /><span class="indent">or drink the blood of goats?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and perform your vows to the Most High,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and call upon me in the day of trouble;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But to the wicked God says:</span><br /><span class="indent">“What right have you to recite my statutes</span><br /><span class="indent">or take my covenant on your lips?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you hate discipline,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you cast my words behind you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you keep company with adulterers.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“You give your mouth free rein for evil,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your tongue frames deceit.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You sit and speak against your brother;</span><br /><span class="indent">you slander your own mother’s son.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">These things you have done, and I have been silent;</span><br /><span class="indent">you thought that I<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or that the I am">c</a></sup></span> was one like yourself.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Mark this, then, you who forget God,</span><br /><span class="indent">lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;</span><br /><span class="indent">to one who orders his way rightly</span><br /><span class="indent">I will show the salvation of God!”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>May our God come, and not keep silence</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">that</span> the <span class="divine-name">I am</span></i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, 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