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