Psalms - Chapter 50 | New International Version

  • 1. {A psalm of Asaph.} The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.
  • 2. From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
  • 3. Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
  • 4. He 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.
  • 6. And 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.
  • 8. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
  • 9. I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
  • 10. for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
  • 11. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures 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. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
  • 14. Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,
  • 15. and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
  • 16. But to the wicked, God says: "What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
  • 17. You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
  • 18. When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
  • 19. You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
  • 20. You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
  • 21. These 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:
  • 23. He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God."
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