Psalms 50 : 1 (ESV)
A PSALM OF ASAPH. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Psalms 50 : 2 (ESV)
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psalms 50 : 3 (ESV)
Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
Psalms 50 : 4 (ESV)
He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Psalms 50 : 5 (ESV)
"Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
Psalms 50 : 6 (ESV)
The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
Psalms 50 : 7 (ESV)
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Psalms 50 : 8 (ESV)
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalms 50 : 9 (ESV)
I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.
Psalms 50 : 10 (ESV)
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50 : 11 (ESV)
I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
Psalms 50 : 12 (ESV)
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
Psalms 50 : 13 (ESV)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 50 : 14 (ESV)
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
Psalms 50 : 15 (ESV)
and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
Psalms 50 : 16 (ESV)
But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
Psalms 50 : 17 (ESV)
For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
Psalms 50 : 18 (ESV)
If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
Psalms 50 : 19 (ESV)
"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Psalms 50 : 20 (ESV)
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Psalms 50 : 21 (ESV)
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.
Psalms 50 : 22 (ESV)
"Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
Psalms 50 : 23 (ESV)
The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!"
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