50: 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
50: 3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence; A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
50: 4 He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people:
50: 5 Gather my saints together unto me, Those that 295have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
295Lit. have cut my covenant by sacrifice.
50: 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. [Selah
50: 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify 296unto thee: I am God, even thy God.
296Or, against thee:
50: 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; 297And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
297Or, Nor for thy burnt-offerings, which are etc.
50: 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds.
50: 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle 298upon a thousand hills.
298Or, upon the mountains where thousands are.
50: 11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are 299mine.
299Or, in my mind. Hb. with me.
50: 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
50: 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
50: 14 Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High:
50: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
50: 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth?
50: 17 Seeing thou hatest 300instruction, And castest my words behind thee.
300Or, correction,
50: 18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And 301hast been partaker with adulterers.
301Hb. thy portion was with adulterers.
50: 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.
50: 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou 302slanderest thine own mother’s son.
302Or, givest a thrust against thine own mother’s son.
50: 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
50: 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
50: 23 Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And 303to him that ordereth his way aright Will I show the salvation of God.
303Or, prepareth a way That I may show him the etc.
