Tehillim 50:1-23 תהילים נ׳:א׳-כ״ג

A Psalm of Asaf. The mighty one, God, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

Out of Żiyyon, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

Our God comes, and does not keep silence: a fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Gather my pious ones together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

And the heavens declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. (Sela.)

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Yisra᾽el, and I will testify against thee: I am God, thy God.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Offer to God a thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the most High:

and call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

But to the wicked man God says, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth?

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and dost cast my words behind thee.

When thou didst see a thief, then thou didst consort with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Thou givest thy mouth free rein for evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou dost slander thy own mother’s son.

These things hast thou done, and if I kept silence, thou wouldst think that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set the matter before thy eyes.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.