The Psalms, starting at chapter 49
Psalm 49
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
{49:1} Hear this, all you peoples.
Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
{49:2} both low and high,
rich and poor together.
{49:3} My mouth will speak words of wisdom.
My heart shall utter understanding.
{49:4} I will incline my ear to a proverb.
I will open my riddle on the harp.
{49:5} Why should I fear in the days of evil,
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
{49:6} Those who trust in their wealth,
and boast in the multitude of their riches--
{49:7} none of them can by any means redeem his brother,
nor give God a ransom for him.
{49:8} For the redemption of their life is costly,
no payment is ever enough,
{49:9} That he should live on forever,
that he should not see corruption.
{49:10} For he sees that wise men die;
likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
and leave their wealth to others.
{49:11} Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,
and their dwelling places to all generations.
They name their lands after themselves.
{49:12} But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure.
He is like the animals that perish.
{49:13} This is the destiny of those who are foolish,
and of those who approve their sayings.
Selah.
{49:14} They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.
Death shall be their shepherd.
The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.
Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,
far from their mansion.
{49:15} But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me.
Selah.
{49:16} Don't be afraid when a man is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased.
{49:17} For when he dies he shall carry nothing away.
His glory shall not descend after him.
{49:18} Though while he lived he blessed his soul--
and men praise you when you do well for yourself--
{49:19} he shall go to the generation of his fathers.
They shall never see the light.
{49:20} A man who has riches without understanding,
is like the animals that perish.
Psalm 50
A Psalm by Asaph.
{50:1} The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
{50:2} Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
{50:3} Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
A fire devours before him.
It is very stormy around him.
{50:4} He calls to the heavens above,
to the earth, that he may judge his people:
{50:5} "Gather my saints together to me,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
{50:6} The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
Selah.
{50:7} "Hear, my people, and I will speak;
Israel, and I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
{50:8} I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
{50:9} I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
{50:10} For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
{50:11} I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.
{50:12} If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
{50:13} Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
{50:14} Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Pay your vows to the Most High.
{50:15} Call on me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
{50:16} But to the wicked God says,
"What right do you have to declare my statutes,
that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
{50:17} seeing you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
{50:18} When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
{50:19} "You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
{50:20} You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother's son.
{50:21} You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that the I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
{50:22} "Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
{50:23} Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."
Psalm 51
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came
to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
{51:1} Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my
transgressions.
{51:2} Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
Cleanse me from my sin.
{51:3} For I know my transgressions.
My sin is constantly before me.
{51:4} Against you, and you only, have I sinned,
and done that which is evil in your sight;
that you may be proved right when you speak,
and justified when you judge.
{51:5} Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity.
In sin my mother conceived me.
{51:6} Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.
You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
{51:7} Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
{51:8} Let me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
{51:9} Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all of my iniquities.
{51:10} Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a right spirit within me.
{51:11} Don't throw me from your presence,
and don't take your holy Spirit from me.
{51:12} Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.
{51:13} Then I will teach transgressors your ways.
Sinners shall be converted to you.
{51:14} Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my
salvation.
My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
{51:15} Lord, open my lips.
My mouth shall declare your praise.
{51:16} For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.
You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
{51:17} The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.
A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
{51:18} Do well in your good pleasure to Zion.
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
{51:19} Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.
Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
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