50 The
mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the
rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out
of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. 3 Our
God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before
him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 4 He
shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge
his people. 5 Gather
my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by
sacrifice. 6 And
the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself.
Selah. 7 Hear,
O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee:
I am God, even thy God. 8 I
will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have
been continually before me. 9 I
will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For
every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I
know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
are mine.
12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the
fulness thereof. 13 Will
I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer
unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And
call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt
glorify me. 16 But
unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing
thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee. 18 When
thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker
with adulterers. 19 Thou
givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou
sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's
son. 21 These
things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether
such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before
thine eyes. 22 Now
consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there
be none to deliver. 23 Whoso
offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation
aright will I shew the salvation of God.