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50:1  God, the LORD, has spoken. He has summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting place.
50:2  From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.
50:3  Our God has appeared and he has not been silent; a devouring fire blazed before him, and a mighty storm swirled around him.
50:4  He summoned the heavens above and the earth below, to sit in judgment on his people.
50:5  "Assemble before me, my saints, who have entered into my covenant by sacrifice."
50:6  The heavens revealed his justice, for God is himself the judge. Interlude
50:7  "Listen, my people, for I am making a pronouncement: Israel, I, God, your God, am testifying against you.
50:8  I do not rebuke you because of your sacrifices; indeed, your burnt offerings are continuously before me.
50:9  I will no longer accept a sacrificial bull from your household; nor goats from your pens.
50:10  Indeed, every animal of the forest is mine, even the cattle on a thousand hills.
50:11  I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.
50:12  "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine along with everything in it.
50:13  Why should I eat the flesh of oxen or drink the blood of goats?
50:14  Offer to God a thanksgiving praise; pay your vows to the Most High.
50:15  Call on me in the day of distress; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."
50:16  As for the wicked, God says, "How dare you recite my statutes or speak about my covenant with your lips!
50:17  You hate instruction and toss my words behind you.
50:18  When you see a thief, you befriend him, and you keep company with adulterers.
50:19  You give your mouth free reign for evil, and your tongue devises deceit.
50:20  You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
50:21  These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."
50:22  Consider this, you who have forgotten God— Otherwise, I will tear you in pieces and there will be no deliverer:
50:23  Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and I will reveal the salvation of God to whomever continues in my way."