# Psalm 50 (New King James Version)
God the Righteous Judge

##### Chapter 50
###### 1 The Mighty One, God the Lord,  
Has spoken and called the earth  
From the rising of the sun to its going down.  

###### 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,  
God will shine forth.  

###### 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;  
A fire shall devour before Him,  
And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

###### 4 He shall call to the heavens from above,  
And to the earth, that He may judge His people:  

###### 5 "Gather My saints together to Me,  
Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."  

###### 6 Let the heavens declare His righteousness,  
For God Himself _is_ Judge. _Selah_

###### 7 "Hear, O My people, and I will speak,  
O Israel, and I will testify against you;  
I _am_ God, your God!  

###### 8 I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices  
Or your burnt offerings,  
_Which are_ continually before Me.  

###### 9 I will not take a bull from your house,  
_Nor_ goats out of your folds.  

###### 10 For every beast of the forest _is_ Mine,  
_And_ the cattle on a thousand hills.  

###### 11 I know all the birds of the mountains,  
And the wild beasts of the field _are_ Mine.

###### 12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you;  
For the world _is_ Mine, and all its fullness.  

###### 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls,  
Or drink the blood of goats?  

###### 14 Offer to God thanksgiving,  
And pay your vows to the Most High.  

###### 15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble;  
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."

###### 16 But to the wicked God says:  
"What _right_ have you to declare My statutes,  
Or take My covenant in your mouth,  

###### 17 Seeing you hate instruction  
And cast My words behind you?  

###### 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him,  
And have been a partaker with adulterers.  

###### 19 You give your mouth to evil,  
And your tongue frames deceit.  

###### 20 You sit _and_ speak against your brother;  
You slander your own mother's son.  

###### 21 These _things_ you have done, and I kept silent;  
You thought that I was altogether like you;  
_But_ I will rebuke you,  
And set _them_ in order before your eyes.

###### 22 "Now consider this, you who forget God,  
Lest I tear _you_ in pieces,  
And _there be_ none to deliver:  

###### 23 Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;  
And to him who orders _his_ conduct _aright_  
I will show the salvation of God."