50 ⁽⁰⁾ A psalm of Asaf:

⁽¹⁾ The Mighty One, God, Adonai, is speaking,
summoning the world from east to west.
² Out of Tziyon, the perfection of beauty,
God is shining forth.
³ Our God is coming and not staying silent.
With a fire devouring ahead of him
and a great storm raging around him,
⁴ he calls to the heavens above and to earth,
in order to judge his people.
⁵ “Gather to me my faithful,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶ The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
for God himself is judge. (Selah)

⁷ “Listen, my people, I am speaking:
Isra’el, I am testifying against you,
I, God, your God.
⁸ I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are always before me.
⁹ I have no need for a bull from your farm
or for male goats from your pens;
¹⁰ for all forest creatures are mine already,
as are the animals on a thousand hills;
¹¹ I know all the birds in the mountains;
whatever moves in the fields is mine.
¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
for the world is mine, and everything in it.
¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴ Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God,
pay your vows to the Most High,
¹⁵ and call on me when you are in trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says:
“What right do you have to proclaim my laws
or take my covenant on your lips,
¹⁷ when you so hate to receive instruction
and fling my words behind you?
¹⁸ When you see a thief, you join up with him,
you throw in your lot with adulterers,
¹⁹ you give your mouth free rein for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit;
²⁰ you sit and speak against your kinsman,
you slander your own mother’s son.
²¹ When you do such things, should I stay silent?
You may have thought I was just like you;
but I will rebuke and indict you to your face.
²² Consider this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to save you.

²³ “Whoever offers thanksgiving
as his sacrifice honors me;
and to him who goes the right way
I will show the salvation of God.”