Psalm 50

¹The Mighty One, God, The LORD, speaks,

and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,

God shines out.

³Our God comes, and does not keep silent.

A fire devours before him.

It is very stormy around him.

⁴He 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.”

⁶The heavens shall declare his righteousness,

for God himself is judge.

⁷“Hear, my people, and I will speak.

Israel, I will testify against you.

I am God, your God.

⁸I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.

Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹I have no need for a bull from your stall,

nor male goats from your pens.

¹⁰For every animal of the forest is mine,

and the livestock on a thousand hills.

¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains.

The wild animals of the field are mine.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you,

for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

¹³Will I eat the meat of bulls,

or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

Pay your vows to the Most High.

¹⁵Call on me in the day of trouble.

I will deliver you, and you will honour me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says,

“What right do you have to declare my statutes,

that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

¹⁷since you hate instruction,

and throw my words behind you?

¹⁸When you saw a thief, you consented with him,

and have participated with adulterers.

¹⁹“You give your mouth to evil.

Your tongue frames deceit.

²⁰You sit and speak against your brother.

You slander your own mother’s son.

²¹You 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.

²³Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,

and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”