Psalms 49
1 A Psalm
aOr, of.for Asaph.
The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of
the sun to the going down thereof.
2 Out of Sion
comes the excellence of his beauty.
3 God, 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.
4 He shall summon the heaven above,
and the earth, that he may
bHeb. 10. 30.
judge his people. 5 Assemble ye his
saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
6 And the heavens shall declare his
righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak to
thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee on account
of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.
9 I will take no bullocks out of thine
house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.
10 For all the wild beasts of the
thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
11 I know all the birds of the sky;
and the beauty of the field is mine.
12 If I should be hungry, I will not
tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness of it.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or
drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer to
God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.
15 And call upon me in the day of
affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.
16 But to the sinner God has said,
Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Whereas thou hast hated
instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee.
18 If thou sawest a thief, thou
cSee 1 Pe 4. 4.rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.
19 Thy mouth has multiplied
wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.dFrom these words in Alex. to Ps. 79. 11, thirty psalms are wanting.
20 Thou didst sit and speak against
thy brother, and didst scandalise thy mother's son.
21 These things thou didst, and I
kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee;
but I will reprove thee, and set
thine offences before thee.
22 Now consider these things, ye that
forget God, lest he rend you, and there be no
deliverer.
23 The sacrifice of praise will
glorify me: and
eGr. there.that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.