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50:1  From the rising of the sun to where it sets, God, the Lord God, speaks, calling out to the earth.
50:2  From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines brightly.
50:3  Our God is coming; he won’t keep quiet. A devouring fire is before him; a storm rages all around him.
50:4  God calls out to the skies above and to the earth in order to judge his people:
50:5  “Bring my faithful to me, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
50:6  The skies proclaim his righteousness because God himself is the judge. Selah
50:7  “Listen, my people, I will now speak; Israel, I will now testify against you. I am God—your God!
50:8  I’m not punishing you for your sacrifices or for your entirely burned offerings, which are always before me.
50:9  I won’t accept bulls from your house or goats from your corrals
50:10  because every forest animal already belongs to me, as do the cattle on a thousand hills.
50:11  I know every mountain bird; even the insects in the fields are mine.
50:12  Even if I were hungry, I wouldn’t tell you because the whole world and everything in it already belong to me.
50:13  Do I eat bulls’ meat? Do I drink goats’ blood?
50:14  Offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving! Fulfill the promises you made to the Most High!
50:15  Cry out to me whenever you are in trouble; I will deliver you, then you will honor me.”
50:16  But to the wicked God says, “Why do you talk about my laws? Why do you even mention my covenant?
50:17  You hate discipline, and you toss my words behind your back.
50:18  You make friends with thieves whenever you see one; you spend your time with adulterers.
50:19  You set your mouth free to do evil, then harness your tongue to tell lies.
50:20  You sit around, talking about your own siblings; you find fault with the children of your very own mother.
50:21  You’ve done these things and I’ve kept quiet. You thought I was just like you! But now I’m punishing you; I’m laying it all out, right in front of your face.
50:22  So consider this carefully, all you who forget God, or I’ll rip you to pieces with no one to deliver you:
50:23  The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving is the one who honors me. And it is to the one who charts the correct path that I will show divine salvation.”