Psalms 50

1A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Josh 22:22 · 1Ki 18:21 · 1Ki 18:36 · 1Chr 15:17 · 1Chr 16:37 · +19 more

2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.Cross-references: Deut 33:2 · Ps 48:2 · Ps 68:24 · Ps 80:1 · Ps 80:17 · Ps 87:2 · +12 more

3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.Cross-references: Ex 19:18 · Lev 10:2 · Num 16:35 · Deut 9:3 · 1Ki 19:11 · Ps 18:7 · +20 more

4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:Cross-references: Deut 4:26 · Deut 4:36 · Deut 30:19 · Deut 31:28 · Deut 32:1 · Ps 50:6 · +6 more

5“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”Cross-references: Ex 24:3 · Deut 33:2 · Ps 30:4 · Ps 97:10 · Prov 2:8 · Isa 13:3 · +11 more

6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Ps 7:3 · Ps 9:16 · Ps 75:7 · Ps 89:5 · Ps 97:6 · +7 more

7“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Ex 20:2 · Deut 26:17 · Deut 31:19 · 1Sam 12:22 · 2Ki 17:13 · +14 more

8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.Cross-references: Ps 40:6 · Ps 51:16 · Isa 1:11 · Jer 7:21 · Hos 6:6 · Heb 10:4

9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.Cross-references: Ps 69:31 · Isa 43:23 · Mic 6:6 · Acts 17:25 · Heb 10:4

10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.Cross-references: Gen 1:24 · Gen 2:19 · Gen 8:17 · Gen 9:2 · Gen 31:9 · 1Chr 29:14 · +7 more

11I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.Cross-references: Gen 1:20 · Job 38:41 · Job 39:13 · Job 39:26 · Ps 104:12 · Ps 147:9 · +5 more

12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.Cross-references: Gen 1:11 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 8:17 · Ex 19:5 · Deut 10:14 · Job 41:11 · +5 more

13Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.Cross-references: Lev 27:2 · Num 30:2 · Deut 23:21 · Ps 22:25 · Ps 27:6 · Ps 50:23 · +17 more

15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”Cross-references: 2Chr 33:12 · Job 22:27 · Ps 22:23 · Ps 34:3 · Ps 50:23 · Ps 66:13 · +15 more

16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,Cross-references: Ps 25:14 · Ps 78:36 · Prov 26:7 · Isa 1:11 · Isa 29:13 · Isa 48:1 · +14 more

17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?Cross-references: 1Ki 14:9 · Neh 9:26 · Prov 1:7 · Prov 1:28 · Prov 5:12 · Prov 8:36 · +10 more

18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.Cross-references: Lev 20:10 · Job 31:9 · Prov 1:10 · Prov 2:16 · Prov 7:19 · Isa 5:23 · +7 more

19“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.Cross-references: Ps 5:9 · Ps 10:7 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 36:3 · Ps 52:2 · Ps 55:12 · +8 more

20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.Cross-references: Lev 19:16 · Ps 31:18 · Prov 10:18 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 10:21 · Luke 22:65 · +3 more

21You 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.Cross-references: Ex 3:14 · Num 23:19 · Ps 50:3 · Ps 50:8 · Ps 73:11 · Ps 90:8 · +14 more

22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.Cross-references: Deut 32:18 · 2Sam 22:42 · Job 8:13 · Ps 7:2 · Ps 9:17 · Ps 10:4 · +12 more

23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”Cross-references: Ps 22:23 · Ps 24:4 · Ps 25:14 · Ps 27:6 · Ps 50:14 · Ps 85:9 · +23 more