Psalms 50 · Clearspring

A Psalm of Asaph.

The Mighty One Calls

¹The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.+ ²From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.+ ³Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.+ ⁴He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:+ ⁵“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”+ ⁶And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for 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.+ 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 or goats from your pens,+ ¹⁰for every beast of the forest is Mine — the cattle on a thousand hills.+ 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 the fullness thereof.+ ¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?+ ¹⁴Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.+ ¹⁵Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”+ ¹⁶To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?+ ¹⁷For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.+ ¹⁸When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.+ ¹⁹You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.+ ²⁰You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.+ 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.+ ²²Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:+ ²³He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”+

The Mighty One Calls

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