Through My Bible Yr 01 – August 21

Through My Bible – August 21

Psalms 50 (EHV)

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¹ God, God the Lord, has spoken.
He calls to the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
² From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
³ Our God comes and he will not be silent.
Fire devours in front of him.
Around him a storm rages.
⁴ He calls to the heavens above and to the earth
    to judge his people.
⁵ “Gather to me my favored ones,
who make a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
⁶ So the heavens proclaim his righteousness,
    because God himself is judge. Interlude

⁷ Listen, my people, and let me speak, O Israel.
Then I will testify against you:
I am God, your God.

⁸ It is not because of your sacrifices that I rebuke you
or because of your burnt offerings that are always in front of me.
⁹ I do not need to take a bull from your barn
    or goats from your pens,
¹⁰ because every animal in the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand mountains.
¹¹ I know every bird in the mountains,
and everything that moves in the field is with me.
¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
because the world is mine, and all that fills it.
¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls,
or do I drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Sacrifice a thank offering to God,
and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
¹⁵ Call on me in the day of distress.
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.

¹⁶ But to the wicked, God says:
What right do you have to recite my statutes
or to take up my covenant with your mouth?
¹⁷ As for you—you hate discipline,
and you throw my words behind your back.
¹⁸ If you see a thief, you approve of him,
and you cast your lot with adulterers.
¹⁹ You devote your mouth to evil,
and your tongue weaves deceit.
²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.

²¹ These things you have done, and I kept silent.
You thought I was just like you.
I will indict you and accuse you to your face.
²² Now consider this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you to pieces,
and there will be no one to rescue you.

²³ The one who sacrifices a thank offering honors me,
and he sets up the way by which I will show him the salvation of God.

Footnotes

1. Psalm 50:1 Asaph, a leading musician, was a contemporary of David.