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Psalms 50
[1]
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
[2] Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines out.
[3] Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
A fire devours before him.
It is very stormy around him.
[4] He calls to the heavens above,
to the earth, that he may judge his people:
[5] “Gather my saints together to me,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
[6] The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
Selah. [7] “Hear, my people, and I will speak.
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
[8] I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
[9] I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
[10] For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
[11] I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.
[12] If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
[13] Will I eat the meat of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
[14] Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Pay your vows to the Most High.
[15] Call on me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” [16] But to the wicked God says,
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
[17] since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
[18] When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers. [19] “You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
[20] You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
[21] You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. [22] “Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
[23] Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
A Psalm by Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
[2] Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines out.
[3] Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
A fire devours before him.
It is very stormy around him.
[4] He calls to the heavens above,
to the earth, that he may judge his people:
[5] “Gather my saints together to me,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
[6] The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge.
Selah. [7] “Hear, my people, and I will speak.
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
[8] I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
[9] I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
[10] For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
[11] I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.
[12] If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
[13] Will I eat the meat of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
[14] Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Pay your vows to the Most High.
[15] Call on me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” [16] But to the wicked God says,
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
[17] since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
[18] When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers. [19] “You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
[20] You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
[21] You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. [22] “Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
[23] Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”