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Psalms 50

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEBA Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
    KJVA Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
  2. 2
    WEBOut of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
    KJVOut of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
  3. 3
    WEBOur God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
    KJVOur God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
  4. 4
    WEBHe calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
    KJVHe shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
  5. 5
    WEB“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
    KJVGather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
  6. 6
    WEBThe heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
    KJVAnd the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
  7. 7
    WEB“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
    KJVHear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
  8. 8
    WEBI don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
    KJVI will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
  9. 9
    WEBI have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
    KJVI will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
  10. 10
    WEBFor every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
    KJVFor every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
  11. 11
    WEBI know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
    KJVI know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
  12. 12
    WEBIf I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
    KJVIf I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
  13. 13
    WEBWill I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
    KJVWill I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
  14. 14
    WEBOffer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
    KJVOffer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
  15. 15
    WEBCall on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
    KJVAnd call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
  16. 16
    WEBBut to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
    KJVBut unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
  17. 17
    WEBsince you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
    KJVSeeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
  18. 18
    WEBWhen you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
    KJVWhen thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
  19. 19
    WEB“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
    KJVThou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
  20. 20
    WEBYou sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
    KJVThou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
  21. 21
    WEBYou have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
    KJVThese things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
  22. 22
    WEB“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
    KJVNow consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  23. 23
    WEBWhoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
    KJVWhoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
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  • King James Version (1769 text), public domain outside the United Kingdom, where Crown letters patent apply.