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