The Psalms

capitolul 50


Capitole:


versetul 1

A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.


versetul 2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.


versetul 3

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.


versetul 4

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


versetul 5

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”


versetul 6

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.


versetul 7

“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.


versetul 8

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.


versetul 9

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.


versetul 10

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.


versetul 11

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.


versetul 12

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.


versetul 13

Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?


versetul 14

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.


versetul 15

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”


versetul 16

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,


versetul 17

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?


versetul 18

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.


versetul 19

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.


versetul 20

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.


versetul 21

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.


versetul 22

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.


versetul 23

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

Capitole:


Cărți