Psalms 49

¹A Psalm to Asaph. The God of gods our Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to the going down.

²Out of Sion the beauty of his comeliness.

³God will come manifestly: our God and he will not keep silence. Fire shall burn forth in his sight: and round about him a mighty tempest.

⁴He shall call the heaven from above: and the earth to discern his people.

⁵Gather ye together his Saints unto him: which ordain his testament above sacrifices.

⁶And the heavens shall shew forth his justice: because God is Judge.

⁷Hear, o my people, and I will speak: Israel, and I will testify to thee: God thy God am I.

⁸I will not rebuke thee in thy sacrifices: and thy holocausts are in my sight always.

⁹I will not take calves out of thy house: nor buck-goats out of thy flocks.

¹⁰Because all the wild beasts of the woods be mine, the cattle in the mountains and oxen.

¹¹I have known all the fowls of the air: and the beauty of the field is with me.

¹²If I shall be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the round earth is mine, and the fullness thereof.

¹³Will I eat the flesh of oxen? Or will I drink the blood of buck-goats?

¹⁴Immolate to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows to the Highest.

¹⁵And invocate me in the day of tribulation: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹⁶But to the sinner God hath said: Why doest thou declare my justices, and takest my testament by thy mouth?

¹⁷But thou hast hated discipline & cast my words behind thee.

¹⁸If thou didst see a thief, thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou didst put thy portion.

¹⁹Thy mouth hath abounded with malice: and thy tongue forged guiles.

²⁰Sitting thou spakest against thy brother, and against thy mother's son thou didst put a scandal:

²¹these things hast thou done, and I have held my peace. Thou hast thought unjustly that I will be like thee: I will reprove thee, and set it against thy face.

²²Understand these things you that forget God: lest sometime he take you violently and there be none to deliver you.

²³The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way, by which I will shew him the salvation of God.