Psalms 49
1The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. 1
2Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty. 1
3God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest. 1
4He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may + 49:4 Heb 10:30 judge his people. 1
5Assemble you⌃ his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices. 1
6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause. 1
7Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God. 1
8I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually. 1
9I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks. 1
10For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen. 1
11I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine. 1
12If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it. 1
13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 1
14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High. 1
15And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. Pause. 1
16But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth? 1
17Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind you. 1
18If you saw a thief, you + 49:18 See 1 Pe 4:4. ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers. 1
19Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit. + 49:19 From these words in Alex. to Ps. 79. 11, thirty psalms are lacking. 1
20You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son. 1
21These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, but I will reprove you, and set your offenses before you. 1
22Now consider these things, you⌃ that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer. 1
23The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and + 49:23 Gr. there. that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.