Psalm 50

New King James Version

God the Righteous Judge

A Psalm of Asaph.

50 The ^(A)Mighty One, God the Lord,
Has spoken and called the earth
From the rising of the sun to its going down.
²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
^(B)God will shine forth.
³Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent;
^(C)A fire shall devour before Him,
And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

⁴^(D)He shall call to the heavens from above,
And to the earth, that He may judge His people:
⁵“Gather ^(E)My saints together to Me,
^(F)Those who have ^[a]made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
⁶Let the ^(G)heavens declare His righteousness,
For ^(H)God Himself is Judge. Selah

⁷“Hear, O My people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will testify against you;
^(I)I am God, your God!
⁸^(J)I will not ^[b]rebuke you ^(K)for your sacrifices
Or your burnt offerings,
Which are continually before Me.
⁹^(L)I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.
¹⁰For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

¹²“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
^(M)For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
¹³^(N)Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴^(O)Offer to God thanksgiving,
And ^(P)pay your vows to the Most High.
¹⁵^(Q)Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to declare My statutes,
Or take My covenant in your mouth,
¹⁷^(R)Seeing you hate instruction
And cast My words behind you?
¹⁸When you saw a thief, you ^(S)consented^[c] with him,
And have been a ^(T)partaker with adulterers.
¹⁹You give your mouth to evil,
And ^(U)your tongue frames deceit.
²⁰You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.
²¹These things you have done, and I kept silent;
^(V)You thought that I was altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And ^(W)set them in order before your eyes.

²²“Now consider this, you who ^(X)forget God,
Lest I tear you in pieces,
And there be none to deliver:
²³Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;
And ^(Y)to him who orders his conduct aright
I will show the salvation of God.”

Footnotes

Psalm 50:5 Lit. cut
Psalm 50:8 reprove
Psalm 50:18 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. ran

Amos 5:12-24

New King James Version

¹²For I ^(A)know your manifold transgressions
And your mighty sins:
^(B)Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
^(C)Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
¹³Therefore ^(D)the prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.

¹⁴Seek good and not evil,
That you may live;
So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,
^(E)As you have spoken.
¹⁵^(F)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
^(G)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

The Day of the Lord

¹⁶Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:

“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
^(H)And skillful lamenters to wailing.
¹⁷In all vineyards there shall be wailing,
For ^(I)I will pass through you,”
Says the Lord.

¹⁸^(J)Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!
For what good is ^(K)the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
¹⁹It will be ^(L)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
²⁰Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?

²¹“I^(M) hate, I despise your feast days,
And ^(N)I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
²²^(O)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
²³Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
²⁴^(P)But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.

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Luke 19:11-27

New King James Version

The Parable of the Minas^(A)

¹¹Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because ^(B)they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately. ¹²^(C)Therefore He said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. ¹³So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten ^[a]minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’ ¹⁴^(D)But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’

¹⁵“And so it was that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. ¹⁶Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’ ¹⁷And he said to him, ^(E)‘Well done, good servant; because you were ^(F)faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’ ¹⁸And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’ ¹⁹Likewise he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’

²⁰“Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief. ²¹^(G)For I feared you, because you are ^[b]an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ ²²And he said to him, ^(H)‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. ^(I)You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. ²³Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’

²⁴“And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’ ²⁵(But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’) ²⁶‘For I say to you, ^(J)that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. ²⁷But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”