Psalm 50

Christian Standard Bible

⁷ “Listen, my people, and I will speak;
I will testify against you, Israel.
I am God, your God.^(I)
8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or for your burnt offerings,
which are continually before me.^(J)
9 I will not take a bull from your household
or male goats from your pens,^(K)
10 for every animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know every bird of the mountains,
and the creatures of the field are mine.^(L)
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and everything in it is mine.^(M)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?^(N)
14 Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to God,^(O)
and pay your vows to the Most High.^(P)
15 Call on me in a day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you will honor me.”^(Q)

¹⁶ But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite my statutes
and to take my covenant on your lips?^(R)
17 You hate instruction
and fling my words behind you.^(S)
18 When you see a thief,
you make friends with him,
and you associate with adulterers.^(T)
19 You unleash your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue for deceit.^(U)
20 You sit, maligning your brother,
slandering your mother’s son.^(V)
21 You have done these things, and I kept silent;
you thought I was just like you.^(W)
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you.^[c](X)

²² “Understand this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you apart,
and there will be no one to rescue you.^(Y)
23 Whoever offers a thanksgiving sacrifice honors me,
and whoever orders his conduct,
I will show him the salvation of God.”^(Z)