Psalm 50:7-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 “Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.(A)
8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.(B)
Psalm 50:9-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.(A)
10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.(B)
11 I know all the birds of the air,[a]
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and all that is in it is mine.(C)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[b]
and pay your vows to the Most High.(D)
15 Call on me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”(E)
16 But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?(F)
17 For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.(G)
18 You make friends with a thief when you see one,
and you keep company with adulterers.(H)
19 You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your kin;
you slander your own mother’s child.(I)
21 These things you have done, and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one just like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.(J)
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