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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/49.htm" title="Psalm 49">◄</a> Psalm 50 <a href="../psalms/51.htm" title="Psalm 51">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 50</span></h3><h3><span class="text">The Acceptable Sacrifice</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text">A Psalm of Asaph.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>The mighty one, God the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">speaks and summons the earth</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from the rising of the sun to its setting.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">God shines forth.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Our God comes and does not keep silence,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">before him is a devouring fire,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a mighty tempest all around him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>He calls to the heavens above</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and to the earth, that he may judge his people:</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>“Gather to me my faithful ones,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The heavens declare his righteousness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for God himself is judge.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“Hear, O my people, and I will speak,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O Israel, I will testify against you.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I am God, your God.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your burnt offerings are continually before me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I will not accept a bull from your house,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or goats from your folds.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>For every wild animal of the forest is mine,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the cattle on a thousand hills.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>I know all the birds of the air,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16750a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and all that moves in the field is mine.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“If I were hungry, I would not tell you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the world and all that is in it is mine.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Do I eat the flesh of bulls,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or drink the blood of goats?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16753b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and pay your vows to the Most High.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Call on me in the day of trouble;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>But to the wicked God says:</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">“What right have you to recite my statutes,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or take my covenant on your lips?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>For you hate discipline,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and you cast my words behind you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>You make friends with a thief when you see one,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and you keep company with adulterers.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>“You give your mouth free rein for evil,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your tongue frames deceit.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>You sit and speak against your kin;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you slander your own mother’s child.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>These things you have done and I have been silent;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you thought that I was one just like yourself.</span></span><br /><span class="text">But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>“Mark this, then, you who forget God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to those who go the right way<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16762c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I will show the salvation of God.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 50:11">Psalm 50:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Tg: Heb <i>mountains</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 50:14">Psalm 50:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 50:23">Psalm 50:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>who set a way</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of 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