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50:1  A psalm by Asaph. God, God the Lord, has spoken. He calls to the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
50:2  From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
50:3  Our God comes and he will not be silent. Fire devours in front of him. Around him a storm rages.
50:4  He calls to the heavens above and to the earth to judge his people.
50:5  “Gather to me my favored ones, who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
50:6  So the heavens proclaim his righteousness, because God himself is judge. Interlude
50:7  Listen, my people, and let me speak, O Israel. Then I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
50:8  It is not because of your sacrifices that I rebuke you or because of your burnt offerings that are always in front of me.
50:9  I do not need to take a bull from your barn or goats from your pens,
50:10  because every animal in the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand mountains.
50:11  I know every bird in the mountains, and everything that moves in the field is with me.
50:12  If I were hungry, I would not tell you, because the world is mine, and all that fills it.
50:13  Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or do I drink the blood of goats?
50:14  Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
50:15  Call on me in the day of distress. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.
50:16  But to the wicked, God says: What right do you have to recite my statutes or to take up my covenant with your mouth?
50:17  As for you—you hate discipline, and you throw my words behind your back.
50:18  If you see a thief, you approve of him, and you cast your lot with adulterers.
50:19  You devote your mouth to evil, and your tongue weaves deceit.
50:20  You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
50:21  These things you have done, and I kept silent. You thought I was just like you. I will indict you and accuse you to your face.
50:22  Now consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to rescue you.
50:23  The one who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he sets up the way by which I will show him the salvation of God.