| Chapter 50 |
1 | The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, And calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
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2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
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3 | Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.
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4 | He calls to the heavens above, To the earth, that he may judge his people:
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5 | 'Gather my saints together to me, Those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.'
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6 | The heavens shall declare his righteousness, For God himself is judge. Selah.
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7 | 'Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
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8 | I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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9 | I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.
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10 | For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
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11 | I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
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12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.
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13 | Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
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14 | Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
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15 | Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.'
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16 | But to the wicked God says, 'What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,
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17 | Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?
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18 | When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have participated with adulterers.
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19 | 'You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue harnesses deceit.
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20 | You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
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21 | You have done these things, and I kept silence. You thought that the 'I AM' was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
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22 | 'Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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23 | Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, And prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him.' Psalm 51 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
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