Psalm 50
First Version (S.M.)
6,6,8,6
^1The mighty God, the Lord,
hath spoken, and did call
The earth, from rising of the sun,
to where he hath his fall.
^2From out of Sion hill,
which of excellency
And beauty the perfection is,
God shined gloriously.
^3Our God shall surely come,
keep silence shall not he:
Before him fire shall waste, great storms
shall round about him be.
^4Unto the heavens clear
he from above shall call,
And to the earth likewise, that he
may judge his people all.
^5Together let my saints
unto me gather'd be,
Those that by sacrifice have made
a covenant with me.
^6And then the heavens shall
his righteousness declare:
Because the Lord himself is he
by whom men judged are.
^7My people Isr'el hear,
speak will I from on high,
Against thee I will testify;
God, ev'n thy God, am I.
^8I for thy sacrifice
no blame will on thee lay,
Nor for burnt-off rings, which to me
thou offer'dst ev'ry day.
^9I'll take no calf nor goats
from house or fold of thine:
^10For beasts of forests, cattle all
on thousand hills, are mine.
^11The fowls on mountains high
are all to me well known;
Wild beasts which in the fields do lie,
ev'n they are all mine own.
^12Then, if I hungry were,
I would not tell it thee;
Because the world, and fulness all
thereof, belongs to me.
^13Will I eat flesh of bulls?
or goats' blood drink will I?
^14Thanks offer thou to God, and pay
thy vows to the most High.
^15And call upon me when
in trouble thou shalt be;
I will deliver thee, and thou
my name shalt glorify.
^16But to the wicked man
God saith, My laws and truth
Should'st thou declare? how dar'st thou take
my cov'nant in thy mouth?
^17Sith thou instruction hat'st,
which should thy ways direct;
And sith my words behind thy back
thou cast'st, and dost reject.
^18When thou a thief didst see,
with him thou didst consent;
And with the vile adulterers
partaker on thou went.
^19Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill,
thy tongue deceit doth frame;
^20Thou sitt'st, and gainst thy brother speak'st,
thy mother's son dost shame.
^21Because I silence kept,
while thou these things hast wrought;
That I was altogether like
thyself, hath been thy thought;
Yet I will thee reprove,
and set before thine eyes,
In order ranked, thy misdeeds
and thine iniquities.
^22Now, ye that God forget,
this carefully consider;
Lest I in pieces tear you all,
and none can you deliver.
^23Whoso doth offer praise
me glorifies; and I
Will shew him God's salvation,
that orders right his way.