Psalms 49
Deus deorum. The coming of Christ: who prefers virtue and inward purity before the blood of victims.
A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken:
and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
2 Out of Sion the
loveliness of his beauty.
3 God shall come manifestly:
our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
4 He shall call heaven from above,
and the earth, to judge his people.
5 Gather ye together his saints to him:
who set his covenant before sacrifices.
6 And the heavens shall declare his justice:
for God is judge.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak:
O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices:
and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
9 I will not take calves out of thy house:
nor he goats out of thy flocks.
10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine:
the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
11 I know all the fowls of the air:
and with me is the beauty of the field.
12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee:
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or
shall I drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise:
and pay thy vows to the most High.
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble:
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 But to the sinner God hath said:
Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline:
and hast cast my words behind thee.
18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him:
and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil,
and thy tongue framed deceits.
20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother,
and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:
21 These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee:
but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
22 Understand these things, you that forget God;
lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me:
and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.