Psalm 50
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v1
The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
v2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
v3
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
v4
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
v5
โGather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.โ
v6
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
v7
โHear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
v8
I donโt rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
v9
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
v10
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
v11
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
v12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
v13
Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
v14
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
v15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.โ
v16
But to the wicked God says, โWhat right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
v17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
v18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
v19
โYou give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
v20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own motherโs son.
v21
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.
v22
โNow consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
v23
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show Godโs salvation to him.โ