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50:1  A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
50:2  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
50:3  Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
50:4  He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
50:5  “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
50:6  The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
50:7  “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
50:8  Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
50:9  I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.
50:10  For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
50:11  I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
50:12  “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
50:13  Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
50:14  Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
50:15  and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
50:16  But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
50:17  For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
50:18  If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
50:19  “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames 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 have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
50:22  “Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
50:23  The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”