Psalm 50

The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes and does not keep silent;
fire devours before him, and a mighty storm rages around him. He summons the heavens above and the earth, to judge his people: “Gather my faithful ones to me, those who made my covenant by sacrifice.” The heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. “Hear, my people, and I will speak;
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are always before me. I will not take a bull from your house or male goats from your pens, for every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird of the mountains, and all that moves in the field is mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains are mine. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of male goats? Offer thanksgiving as a sacrifice to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High. Call on me in the day of distress;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” But to the wicked man God says, “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant upon your lips, when you hate discipline and cast my words behind you? When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you share your lot with adulterers. You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue weaves deceit. You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your mother’s son. You have done these things, and I kept silent;
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you and lay it all before your eyes. Consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart with no one to rescue. The one who offers thanksgiving as a sacrifice honors me;
to the one who orders his way I will show the salvation of God.”

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