rsv Psalms:50:8-23
rsv@Psalms:50:8 @ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
rsv@Psalms:50:9 @ I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
rsv@Psalms:50:10 @ I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
rsv@Psalms:50:11 @ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
rsv@Psalms:50:12 @ I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
rsv@Psalms:50:13 @ "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
rsv@Psalms:50:14 @ Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
rsv@Psalms:50:15 @ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
rsv@Psalms:50:16 @ and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
rsv@Psalms:50:17 @ But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
rsv@Psalms:50:18 @ For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
rsv@Psalms:50:19 @ If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.
rsv@Psalms:50:20 @ "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
rsv@Psalms:50:21 @ You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
rsv@Psalms:50:22 @ These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
rsv@Psalms:50:23 @ "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver! [ (Psalms strkjv@50:24) He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!" ]