Book of Psalms, No. 50
Psalms 50 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 50 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ The Divine One,1 God, Jehovah,[a]2 has himself spoken,3
And he proceeds to call the earth,[b]4
From the rising of the sun until its setting.5 - ¶ Out of Zion, the perfection of prettiness,6 God himself has beamed forth.7
- ¶ Our God will come and cannot possibly keep silent.[c]8
Before him there devours a fire,9
And all around him it has become exceedingly stormy weather.10 - ¶ He calls to the heavens above and to the earth11
So as to execute judgment on his people:12 - ¶ “Gather to me my loyal ones,13
Those concluding[d] my covenant[e] over sacrifice.”14 - ¶ And the heavens tell of his righteousness,15
For God himself is Judge.[f]16 Seʹlah. - ¶ “Do listen, O my people, and I will speak,17
O Israel, and I will bear witness against you.[g]18
I am God, your God.19 - ¶ Not concerning your sacrifices do I reprove you,20
Nor [concerning] your whole burnt offerings [that are] in front of me constantly.21 - ¶ I will not take out of your house a bull,22
Out of your pens he-goats. - ¶ For to me belongs every wild animal of the forest,23
The beasts upon a thousand mountains.24 - ¶ I well know every winged creature of the mountains,25
And the animal throngs of the open field are with me.26 - ¶ If I were hungry, I would not say it to you;
For to me the productive land[h]27 and its fullness belong.28 - ¶ Shall I eat the flesh of powerful [bulls],29
And the blood of he-goats shall I drink?30 - ¶ Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God,31
And pay to the Most High your vows;32 - ¶ And call me in the day of distress.33
I shall rescue you, and you will glorify34 me.” - ¶ But to the wicked one God will have to say:35
“What right do you have to enumerate my regulations,36
And that you may bear my covenant[i] in your mouth?37 - ¶ Why, you—you have hated discipline,38
And you keep throwing my words behind you.39 - ¶ Whenever you saw a thief, you were even pleased[j] with him;40
And your sharing was with adulterers.41 - ¶ Your mouth you have let loose to what is bad,42
And your tongue you keep attached to deception.43 - ¶ You sit [and] speak against your own brother,44
Against the son of your mother you give away a fault.45 - ¶ These things you have done, and I kept silent.46
You imagined that I would positively become like you.47
I am going to reprove you,48 and I will set things in order before your eyes.49 - ¶ Understand this, please, YOU forgetters of God,[k]50
That I may not tear [YOU] to pieces without there being any deliverer.51 - ¶ The one offering thanksgiving as his sacrifice is the one that glorifies me;52
And as for the one keeping a set way,
I will cause him to see salvation by God.”[l]53
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “The Divine One, God, Jehovah.” Or, “The God of gods, Jehovah.” Heb., ʼEl ʼElo·himʹ Yehwahʹ. See Jos 22:22 ftn, “Jehovah.”
- ^ “And the earth begins to fear,” by a change in M.
- ^ Or, “be deaf,” as to prayer.
- ^ Lit., “cutting.”
- ^ Or, “the covenant with me.”
- ^ “A God of judgment he is,” by a different partitioning and vowel pointing of some letters.
- ^ Or, “I will admonish (warn) you.”
- ^ “The productive land.” Heb., the·velʹ; LXX, “the habitable earth”; Lat., orʹbis terʹrae, “the circle of the earth.”
- ^ “My covenant,” as in vs 5.
- ^ “You were even pleased,” M; TLXXSyVg, “you even ran.”
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElohʹah.
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ.
REFERENCES
- ^ Jos 22:22; Is 46:9; Je 32:18
- ^ Ps 95:3
- ^ Am 3:8
- ^ Is 1:2
- ^ Is 45:6
- ^ Ps 48:2; La 2:15
- ^ De 33:2; Ps 80:1
- ^ Ps 83:1; Is 42:13; 65:6
- ^ Ex 19:18; Ps 97:3; Da 7:10; Heb 12:29
- ^ Ps 97:4
- ^ De 4:36; 30:19; 32:1; Is 1:2
- ^ Mc 6:2; Heb 10:30
- ^ De 33:3; 2Ch 29:20; Ps 14:7; Pr 2:8; Is 13:3
- ^ Ex 24:8; Lu 22:20; Jn 11:52
- ^ Ps 97:6
- ^ Ps 7:11; 75:7; Heb 12:23; Re 20:12
- ^ Ps 81:8
- ^ Ne 9:30
- ^ Ex 20:2
- ^ Ps 40:6; Is 1:11; Je 7:22
- ^ 1Sa 15:22; Ho 6:6
- ^ Mc 6:7
- ^ Ge 1:24; 1Ch 29:14; Jb 40:15
- ^ Ac 17:24
- ^ Ge 1:20; Jb 38:41; Ps 104:12; Mt 10:29
- ^ Ps 80:13
- ^ 1Sa 2:8; Ps 24:1; 89:11
- ^ Ex 19:5; De 10:14; Jb 41:11; Ps 104:24; 1Co 10:26
- ^ Ho 14:2
- ^ Mc 6:6
- ^ Ps 69:30; 107:22; Pr 21:3; Ho 6:6; Heb 13:15
- ^ De 23:21; Ps 15:4; 76:11; Ec 5:4; Jon 2:9; Mt 5:33
- ^ 2Ch 33:12; Ps 77:2; 91:15; Lu 22:44
- ^ Ps 22:23; 50:23
- ^ Is 48:1; Eze 18:27
- ^ Je 7:4; Mt 7:23; Ro 2:21
- ^ De 29:21; 31:20; Heb 8:9
- ^ Pr 1:7; 5:12; Heb 12:6
- ^ Ne 9:26; Is 5:24; Je 8:9
- ^ Is 5:23; Ro 1:32; 2:21
- ^ Jm 4:4; 2Jo 11
- ^ Ps 52:3; Je 9:5
- ^ Ps 52:2; Jm 3:5
- ^ Le 19:16; Ps 31:18; Lu 22:65
- ^ Mt 10:21
- ^ Ec 8:11; Ro 2:4; 2Pe 3:9
- ^ Nu 23:19; Ps 73:11; 94:7; Ec 8:12
- ^ Pr 29:1
- ^ Ps 50:4; Ec 12:14
- ^ Ps 9:17; Is 51:13; Je 2:32; Ho 4:6
- ^ Ps 7:2
- ^ Ps 22:23; 27:6; Ro 12:1; Eph 5:20; 1Th 5:18; Heb 13:15
- ^ Ps 91:16; Mc 6:8; Lu 2:30
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