49:11. I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field. 49:12. If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 49:13. Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats? 49:14. Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. 49:15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 49:16. But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? 49:17. Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee. 49:18. If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker. 49:19. Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits. 49:20. Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son: 49:21. These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face. 49:22. Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you. 49:23. The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God. Psalms Chapter 50 Miserere. The repentance and confession of David after his sin. The fourth penitential psalm. 50:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David, 50:2. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [2 Kings 12.] 50:3. Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity. 50:4. Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 50:5. For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me. 50:6. To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil befoer thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged. 50:7. For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me. 50:8. For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me. 50:9. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. 50:10. To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice. 50:11. Tukrn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 50:12. Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels. 50:13. Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 50:14. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit. 50:15. I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee. 50:16. Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.