Psalms 50 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 <V 49:1>A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting, The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. A psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets.
2 <V 49:2>from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
3 <V 49:3>God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
4 <V 49:4>He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 <V 49:5>Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices. “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” “Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 <V 49:6>And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge. The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for he is a God of justice.
7 <V 49:7>Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God. “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. “Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.
8 <V 49:8>I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight. Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
9 <V 49:9>I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks. I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
10 <V 49:10>For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 <V 49:11>I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.
12 <V 49:12>If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude. “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13 <V 49:13>Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats? Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14 <V 49:14>Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High. Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, “Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,
15 <V 49:15>And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me. and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
16 <V 49:16>But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth? But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? But to the wicked person, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
17 <V 49:17>Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you. For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
18 <V 49:18>If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers. If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
19 <V 49:19>Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits. “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
20 <V 49:20>Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.
21 <V 49:21>These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face. These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.
22 <V 49:22>Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you. “Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver! “Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
23 <V 49:23>The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God. The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless I will show my salvation.”
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