Psalms 49

¹A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting

²from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty

³God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him

⁴He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people

⁵Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices

⁶And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge

⁷Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God

⁸I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight

⁹I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks

¹⁰For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen

¹¹I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me

¹²If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude

¹³Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats

¹⁴Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High

¹⁵And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me

¹⁶But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth

¹⁷Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you

¹⁸If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers

¹⁹Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits

²⁰Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son

²¹These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face

²²Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you

²³The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God