Psalms 50 / 150
- 1The Mighty One, God, the LORD , speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.
- 2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
- 3Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
- 4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:
- 5"Gather to me my consecrated ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
- 6And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah
- 7"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
- 8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
- 9I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
- 10for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
- 11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures 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.
- 13Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
- 14Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,
- 15and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
- 16But to the wicked, God says: "What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
- 17You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
- 18When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
- 19You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
- 20You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
- 21These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
- 22"Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue:
- 23He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God."