Psalms:50-55
rsv@Psalms:50:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:50:2 @ The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
rsv@Psalms:50:3 @ Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
rsv@Psalms:50:4 @ Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
rsv@Psalms:50:5 @ He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
rsv@Psalms:50:6 @ "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
rsv@Psalms:50:7 @ The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:50:8 @ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
rsv@Psalms:50:9 @ I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
rsv@Psalms:50:10 @ I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
rsv@Psalms:50:11 @ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
rsv@Psalms:50:12 @ I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
rsv@Psalms:50:13 @ "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
rsv@Psalms:50:14 @ Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
rsv@Psalms:50:15 @ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
rsv@Psalms:50:16 @ and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
rsv@Psalms:50:17 @ But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
rsv@Psalms:50:18 @ For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
rsv@Psalms:50:19 @ If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.
rsv@Psalms:50:20 @ "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
rsv@Psalms:50:21 @ You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
rsv@Psalms:50:22 @ These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
rsv@Psalms:50:23 @ "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver! [ (Psalms strkjv@50:24) He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!" ]
rsv@Psalms:51:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
rsv@Psalms:51:2 @ Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
rsv@Psalms:51:3 @ Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
rsv@Psalms:51:4 @ For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
rsv@Psalms:51:5 @ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.
rsv@Psalms:51:6 @ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
rsv@Psalms:51:7 @ Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
rsv@Psalms:51:8 @ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
rsv@Psalms:51:9 @ Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.
rsv@Psalms:51:10 @ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
rsv@Psalms:51:11 @ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
rsv@Psalms:51:12 @ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
rsv@Psalms:51:13 @ Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
rsv@Psalms:51:14 @ Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee.
rsv@Psalms:51:15 @ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.
rsv@Psalms:51:16 @ O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
rsv@Psalms:51:17 @ For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.
rsv@Psalms:51:18 @ The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
rsv@Psalms:51:19 @ Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, [ (Psalms strkjv@51:20) then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on thy altar. ]
rsv@Psalms:52:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."
rsv@Psalms:52:2 @ Why do you boast, O mighty man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day
rsv@Psalms:52:3 @ you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
rsv@Psalms:52:4 @ You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:52:5 @ You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
rsv@Psalms:52:6 @ But God will break you down for ever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:52:7 @ The righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
rsv@Psalms:52:8 @ "See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!"
rsv@Psalms:52:9 @ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@52:10) I will thank thee for ever, because thou hast done it. I will proclaim thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. ]
rsv@Psalms:53:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
rsv@Psalms:53:2 @ The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.
rsv@Psalms:53:3 @ God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God.
rsv@Psalms:53:4 @ They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.
rsv@Psalms:53:5 @ Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
rsv@Psalms:53:6 @ There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them. [ (Psalms strkjv@53:7) O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad. ]
rsv@Psalms:54:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, "David is in hiding among us."
rsv@Psalms:54:2 @ Save me, O God, by thy name, and vindicate me by thy might.
rsv@Psalms:54:3 @ Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
rsv@Psalms:54:4 @ For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before them. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:54:5 @ Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.
rsv@Psalms:54:6 @ He will requite my enemies with evil; in thy faithfulness put an end to them.
rsv@Psalms:54:7 @ With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to thee; I will give thanks to thy name, O LORD, for it is good. [ (Psalms strkjv@54:8) For thou hast delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies. ]
rsv@Psalms:55:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
rsv@Psalms:55:2 @ Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication!
rsv@Psalms:55:3 @ Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught
rsv@Psalms:55:4 @ by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
rsv@Psalms:55:5 @ My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
rsv@Psalms:55:6 @ Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
rsv@Psalms:55:7 @ And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
rsv@Psalms:55:8 @ yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:55:9 @ I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."
rsv@Psalms:55:10 @ Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
rsv@Psalms:55:11 @ Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,
rsv@Psalms:55:12 @ ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.
rsv@Psalms:55:13 @ It is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him.
rsv@Psalms:55:14 @ But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
rsv@Psalms:55:15 @ We used to hold sweet converse together; within God's house we walked in fellowship.
rsv@Psalms:55:16 @ Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.
rsv@Psalms:55:17 @ But I call upon God; and the LORD will save me.
rsv@Psalms:55:18 @ Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
rsv@Psalms:55:19 @ He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
rsv@Psalms:55:20 @ God will give ear, and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old; because they keep no law, and do not fear God. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:55:21 @ My companion stretched out his hand against his friends, he violated his covenant.
rsv@Psalms:55:22 @ His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
rsv@Psalms:55:23 @ Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. [ (Psalms strkjv@55:24) But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee. ]
rsv@Psalms:56:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
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