Berean Standard Bible

Psalms 50:7-23

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 statutesand to bear My covenant on your lips?17For you hate My instructionand 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 eviland 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 was1 just like you.But now I rebuke youand accuse you to your face.2

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.”

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1. Psalms 50:21 Or you thought the ‘I AM’ was ↩
2. Psalms 50:21 Literally and I set it in order before your eyes ↩

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