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Apoteichisis

The Old Testament

Psalms 49

ΨΑΛΜΟΙ · 49

Brenton 49:1

A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

Source notes (1)
  • Or, of.
Brenton 49:2

Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.

Brenton 49:3

God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

Brenton 49:4

He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

Brenton 49:5

Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

Brenton 49:6

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

Brenton 49:7

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Brenton 49:8

I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

Brenton 49:9

I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.

Brenton 49:10

For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

Brenton 49:11

I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

Brenton 49:12

If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness of it.

Brenton 49:13

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Brenton 49:14

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

Brenton 49:15

And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

Brenton 49:16

But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

Brenton 49:17

Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee.

Brenton 49:18

If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.

Source notes (1)
  • See 1 Pe 4. 4.
Brenton 49:19

Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.

Source notes (1)
  • From these words in Alex. to Ps. 79. 11, thirty psalms are wanting.
Brenton 49:20

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalise thy mother's son.

Brenton 49:21

These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee; but I will reprove thee, and set thine offences before thee.

Brenton 49:22

Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there be no deliverer.

Brenton 49:23

The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.

Source notes (1)
  • Gr. there.

Brenton supplied wording, small capitals, translation notes, Greek wording, and edition-specific verse identifiers are retained. Parallel passages keep each edition's own references. Editions and sources.