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Psalm 50 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Psa 50:1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Psa 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psa 50:3Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
Psa 50:4He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Psa 50:5"Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
Psa 50:6The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
Psa 50:7"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Psa 50:8I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psa 50:9I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
Psa 50:10For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psa 50:11I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
Psa 50:12"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
Psa 50:13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psa 50:14Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
Psa 50:15and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
Psa 50:16But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
Psa 50:17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
Psa 50:18If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.
Psa 50:19"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Psa 50:20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Psa 50:21These 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.
Psa 50:22"Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
Psa 50:23He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"
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