# Psalm 50 ## Psalm 50:1 - [KJV] The mighty God, *even* the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. - [ASV] The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. - [YLT] The God of gods -- Jehovah -- hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in. ### Notes on Psalm 50:1 - ## Psalm 50:2 - [KJV] Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. - [ASV] Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. - [YLT] From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone. ### Notes on Psalm 50:2 - ## Psalm 50:3 - [KJV] Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. - [ASV] Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him. - [YLT] Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous. ### Notes on Psalm 50:3 - ## Psalm 50:4 - [KJV] He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. - [ASV] He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people: - [YLT] He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people. ### Notes on Psalm 50:4 - ## Psalm 50:5 - [KJV] Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. - [ASV] Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. - [YLT] Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice. ### Notes on Psalm 50:5 - ## Psalm 50:6 - [KJV] And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God *is* judge himself. Selah. - [ASV] And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. *Selah* - [YLT] And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself *is* judge. Selah. ### Notes on Psalm 50:6 - ## Psalm 50:7 - [KJV] Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I *am* God, *even* thy God. - [ASV] Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, *even* thy God. - [YLT] Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God *am* I. ### Notes on Psalm 50:7 - ## Psalm 50:8 - [KJV] I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, *to have been* continually before me. - [ASV] I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me. - [YLT] Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings *Are* before Me continually. ### Notes on Psalm 50:8 - ## Psalm 50:9 - [KJV] I will take no bullock out of thy house, *nor* he goats out of thy folds. - [ASV] I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds. - [YLT] I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats. ### Notes on Psalm 50:9 - ## Psalm 50:10 - [KJV] For every beast of the forest *is* mine, *and* the cattle upon a thousand hills. - [ASV] For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. - [YLT] For Mine *is* every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen. ### Notes on Psalm 50:10 - ## Psalm 50:11 - [KJV] I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field *are* mine. - [ASV] I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. - [YLT] I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field *is* with Me. ### Notes on Psalm 50:11 - ## Psalm 50:12 - [KJV] If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world *is* mine, and the fulness thereof. - [ASV] If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. - [YLT] If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine *is* the world and its fulness. ### Notes on Psalm 50:12 - ## Psalm 50:13 - [KJV] Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? - [ASV] Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? - [YLT] Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats? ### Notes on Psalm 50:13 - ## Psalm 50:14 - [KJV] Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: - [ASV] Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High: - [YLT] Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows. ### Notes on Psalm 50:14 - ## Psalm 50:15 - [KJV] And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. - [ASV] And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. - [YLT] And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me. ### Notes on Psalm 50:15 - ## Psalm 50:16 - [KJV] But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or *that* thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? - [ASV] 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, - [YLT] And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth? ### Notes on Psalm 50:16 - ## Psalm 50:17 - [KJV] Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. - [ASV] Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee? - [YLT] Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee. ### Notes on Psalm 50:17 - ## Psalm 50:18 - [KJV] When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. - [ASV] When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers. - [YLT] If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers *is* thy portion. ### Notes on Psalm 50:18 - ## Psalm 50:19 - [KJV] Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. - [ASV] Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit. - [YLT] Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together, ### Notes on Psalm 50:19 - ## Psalm 50:20 - [KJV] Thou sittest *and* speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. - [ASV] Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. - [YLT] Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander. ### Notes on Psalm 50:20 - ## Psalm 50:21 - [KJV] These *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. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes. ### Notes on Psalm 50:21 - ## Psalm 50:22 - [KJV] Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear *you* in pieces, and *there be* none to deliver. - [ASV] Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver: - [YLT] Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer. ### Notes on Psalm 50:22 - ## Psalm 50:23 - [KJV] Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth *his* conversation *aright* will I shew the salvation of God. - [ASV] Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way *aright* Will I show the salvation of God. - [YLT] He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God! ### Notes on Psalm 50:23 -