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Psalm 50

1The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
1The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
5“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
7“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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, nor male goats from your pens.
9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
10for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
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 all that is in it.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
13Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
19“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
19You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
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.
22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”