50 The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken
and summoned the earth,
from the rising of the sun
to its setting.
² From Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
³ Our God comes and he is not silent.
Before him fire devours,
and around him it is very tempestuous.
⁴ He summons the heavens above
and the earth that he might judge his people:
⁵ “Gather to me my loyal ones,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
⁶ And the heavens declare his righteousness,
because 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.
⁸ It is not concerning a lack of your sacrifices that I rebuke you,
and your burnt offerings are before me continually.
⁹ I will not take from your house a bull
or from your stalls a he-goat,
¹⁰ because every animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know every bird of the mountains,
and every moving creature in the field is mine.
¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you,
because the world and its fullness are mine.
¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴ Offer to God a thank offering
and pay your vows to the Most High.
¹⁵ And call me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.”
¹⁶ But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recite my statutes
and mention my covenant with your mouth,^[b]
17 while you yourself hate discipline,
and cast my words behind you?
¹⁸ When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him,
and your association is with adulterers.
¹⁹ You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and you harness your tongue to deceit.
²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your mother’s son.
²¹ These things you have done, and I have been silent;
You imagined that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you and present an argument before your eyes.
²² Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there will be none to deliver.
²³ He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me,
and he who orders his way;
I will show him the salvation of God.”