A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken,
And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God hath shined forth.
Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence:
A fire devoureth before him,
And it is very tempestuous round about him.
He calleth to the heavens above,
And to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Gather my saints together unto me,
Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
And the heavens {Or, declare}shall declare his righteousness;
For God is judge himself. [Selah
Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, and I will testify {Or, against}unto thee:
I am God, even thy God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;
{Or, Not for thy burnt-offerings, which are &c.}And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
I will take no bullock out of thy house,
Nor he-goats out of thy folds.
For every beast of the forest is mine,
And the cattle {Or, upon the mountains where thousands are}upon a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the mountains;
And the wild beasts of the field are {Or, in my mind Hebrew: with me.}mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;
For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?
Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving;
And pay thy vows unto the Most High;
And call upon me in the day of trouble:
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
But unto the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
Seeing thou hatest {Or, correction}instruction,
And castest my words behind thee?
When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him,
And {Hebrew: thy portion was with adulterers.}hast been partaker with adulterers.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil,
And thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
Thou {Or, givest a thrust against}slanderest thine own mother's son.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself:
But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Now consider this, ye that forget God,
Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me;
And {Or, prepareth a way that I may show him}to him that ordereth his way aright
Will I show the salvation of God.
Querverweise zu Psalm 50,22 Ps 50,22
Of the Rock that {Or, bare}begat thee thou art unmindful,And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.
The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol,Even all the nations that forget God.
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
Lest they tear my soul like a lion,Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything that shall be after him.
The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it.All his thoughts are, There is no God.
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.
They looked, but there was none to save;Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
So are the paths of all that forget God;And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
And {Or, refuge shall fail the swift}flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver {Hebrew: his soul (or, life).}himself;
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: {Hebrew: Set your heart on your ways.}Consider your ways.
and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, {Or, as though he made ready}when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, {According to another reading, I have rejected.}I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.