---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 50
verse_count: 23
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 50, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 50

*The gathering of the saints Obedience enjoined. A Psalm of Asaph.*

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