Psalm 50

¹The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.

²From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.

³Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

⁴He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

⁵“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

⁶And 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.

⁸I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

⁹I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,

¹⁰for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

¹⁵Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

¹⁶To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

¹⁷For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

¹⁸When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

¹⁹You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

²⁰You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

²¹You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.