Psalm

50 The Divine One,+ God, Jehovah,*+ has himself spoken,+

And he proceeds to call the earth,*+

From the rising of the sun until its setting.+

 3 Our God will come and cannot possibly keep silent.*+

Before him there devours a fire,+

And all around him it has become exceedingly stormy weather.+

 4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth+

So as to execute judgment on his people:+

 5 “Gather to me my loyal ones,+

Those concluding* my covenant* over sacrifice.”+

 6 And the heavens tell of his righteousness,+

For God himself is Judge.*+ Seʹlah.

 7 “Do listen, O my people, and I will speak,+

O Israel, and I will bear witness against you.*+

I am God, your God.+

 8 Not concerning your sacrifices do I reprove you,+

Nor [concerning] your whole burnt offerings [that are] in front of me constantly.+

 9 I will not take out of your house a bull,+

Out of your pens he-goats.

10 For to me belongs every wild animal of the forest,+

The beasts upon a thousand mountains.+

11 I well know every winged creature of the mountains,+

And the animal throngs of the open field are with me.+

12 If I were hungry, I would not say it to you;

For to me the productive land*+ and its fullness belong.+

13 Shall I eat the flesh of powerful [bulls],+

And the blood of he-goats shall I drink?+

14 Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God,+

And pay to the Most High your vows;+

15 And call me in the day of distress.+

I shall rescue you, and you will glorify+ me.”

16 But to the wicked one God will have to say:+

“What right do you have to enumerate my regulations,+

And that you may bear my covenant* in your mouth?+

17 Why, you—you have hated discipline,+

And you keep throwing my words behind you.+

18 Whenever you saw a thief, you were even pleased* with him;+

And your sharing was with adulterers.+

19 Your mouth you have let loose to what is bad,+

And your tongue you keep attached to deception.+

20 You sit [and] speak against your own brother,+

Against the son of your mother you give away a fault.+

21 These things you have done, and I kept silent.+

You imagined that I would positively become like you.+

I am going to reprove you,+ and I will set things in order before your eyes.+

22 Understand this, please, YOU forgetters of God,*+

That I may not tear [YOU] to pieces without there being any deliverer.+

23 The one offering thanksgiving as his sacrifice is the one that glorifies me;+

And as for the one keeping a set way,

I will cause him to see salvation by God.”*+