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50:1  A psalm of Asaf: The Mighty One, God, Adonai, is speaking, summoning the world from east to west.
50:2  Out of Tziyon, the perfection of beauty, God is shining forth.
50:3  Our God is coming and not staying silent. With a fire devouring ahead of him and a great storm raging around him,
50:4  he calls to the heavens above and to earth, in order to judge his people.
50:5  “Gather to me my faithful, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
50:6  The heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)
50:7  “Listen, my people, I am speaking: Isra’el, I am testifying against you, I, God, your God.
50:8  I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.
50:9  I have no need for a bull from your farm or for male goats from your pens;
50:10  for all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals on a thousand hills;
50:11  I know all the birds in the mountains; whatever moves in the fields is mine.
50:12  If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.
50:13  Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
50:14  Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God, pay your vows to the Most High,
50:15  and call on me when you are in trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
50:16  But to the wicked God says: “What right do you have to proclaim my laws or take my covenant on your lips,
50:17  when you so hate to receive instruction and fling my words behind you?
50:18  When you see a thief, you join up with him, you throw in your lot with adulterers,
50:19  you give your mouth free rein for evil and harness your tongue to deceit;
50:20  you sit and speak against your kinsman, you slander your own mother’s son.
50:21  When you do such things, should I stay silent? You may have thought I was just like you; but I will rebuke and indict you to your face.
50:22  Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to save you.
50:23  “Whoever offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; and to him who goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.”