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Psalm 50

¹The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
³Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
⁴He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
⁵Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
⁷Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
⁹I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
¹¹I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
¹⁷Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
¹⁹Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
²¹These 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.
²²Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
²³Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

²³I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
²⁴I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
²⁵I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
²⁶I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.
²⁷For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
²⁸For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
²⁹The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
³⁰And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
³¹For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

¹¹I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
¹²But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
¹³The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
¹⁴I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
¹⁵As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
¹⁶And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
¹⁷Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
¹⁸No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
¹⁹There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
²⁰And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
²¹Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?