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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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/psalms/50.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="psalmheading">A song of Asaph.</p><p class="heading">The Acceptable Sacrifice</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>God, the LORD,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="50:1 Or The mighty God">a</a></span> has spoken.</p> <p class="poetry2">He has summoned the earth</p> <p class="poetry2">from the rising of the sun to its setting place.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>From Zion, the perfection of beauty,</p> <p class="poetry2">God has shined forth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Our God has appeared and he has not been silent;</p> <p class="poetry2">a devouring fire blazed before him,</p> <p class="poetry2">and a mighty storm swirled around him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He summoned the heavens above</p> <p class="poetry2">and the earth below,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="50:4 The Heb. lacks below">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">to sit in judgment on his people.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Assemble before me, my saints,</p> <p class="poetry2">who have entered into my covenant by sacrifice.”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The heavens revealed his justice,</p> <p class="poetry2">for God is himself the judge.</p> <p class="selah">Interlude</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Listen, my people,</p> <p class="poetry2">for I am making a pronouncement:</p> <p class="poetry2">Israel, I, God, your God, am testifying against you.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I do not rebuke you because of your sacrifices;</p> <p class="poetry2">indeed, your burnt offerings are continuously before me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will no longer accept a sacrificial<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="50:9 The Heb. lacks sacrificial">c</a></span> bull from your household;</p> <p class="poetry2">nor goats from your pens.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Indeed, every animal of the forest is mine,</p> <p class="poetry2">even the cattle on a thousand hills.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I know all the birds in the mountains;</p> <p class="poetry2">indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;</p> <p class="poetry2">for the world is mine along with everything in it.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Why should I eat the flesh of oxen</p> <p class="poetry2">or drink the blood of goats?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Offer to God a thanksgiving praise;</p> <p class="poetry2">pay your vows to the Most High.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Call on me in the day of distress;</p> <p class="poetry2">I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>As for the wicked, God says,</p> <p class="poetry2">“How dare you recite my statutes</p> <p class="poetry2">or speak about my covenant with your lips!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You hate instruction</p> <p class="poetry2">and toss my words behind you.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When you see a thief, you befriend him,</p> <p class="poetry2">and you keep company with adulterers.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You give your mouth free reign for evil,</p> <p class="poetry2">and your tongue devises deceit.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You sit and speak against your brother;</p> <p class="poetry2">you slander your own mother’s son.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>These things you did, and I kept silent,</p> <p class="poetry2">because you assumed that I was like you.</p> <p class="poetry2">But now I am going to rebuke you,</p> <p class="poetry2">and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes.”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Consider this, you who have forgotten God—</p> <p class="poetry2">Otherwise, I will tear you in pieces</p> <p class="poetry2">and there will be no deliverer:</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/50-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,</p> <p class="poetry2">and I will reveal the salvation of God</p> <p class="poetry2">to whomever continues in my way.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="50:23 Lit. sets a way">d</a></span> </p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 50:1 Or <i>The mighty God</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 50:4 The Heb. lacks <i>below</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 50:9 The Heb. lacks <i>sacrificial</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 50:23 Lit. <i>sets a way</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The 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