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Psalm 50 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:1 - A psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:2 - From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:3 - Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:4 - He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:5 - “Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:6 - And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for he is a God of justice.[fn][fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:7 - “Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:8 - I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:9 - I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 - for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:11 - I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:12 - If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:13 - Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:14 - “Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:15 - and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:16 - But to the wicked person, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:17 - You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:18 - When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:19 - You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:20 - You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:21 - When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly[fn] like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:22 - “Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:23 - Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless[fn] I will show my salvation.”
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NIV Footnotes
With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text for God himself is judge
The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
Or thought the ‘I am’ was
Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.
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Psalm Chapter 50 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras