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Psalm 50, NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
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The mighty one, God the Lord, speaks and summons the
earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines
forth.
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Our God comes and does not keep silence, before him is
a devouring fire, and a mighty tempest all around him.
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He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he
may judge his people:
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“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant
with me by sacrifice!”
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The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself
is judge. (Selah)
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“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will
testify against you. I am God, your God.
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Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt
offerings are continually before me.
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I will not accept a bull from your house, or goats from
your folds.
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For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle
on a thousand hills.
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I know all the birds of the air,
and all that moves in the field is mine.
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“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world
and all that is in it is mine.
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Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of
goats?
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Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and pay your vows to the Most High.
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Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you,
and you shall glorify me.”
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But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to
recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
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For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind
you.
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You make friends with a thief when you see one, and you
keep company with adulterers.
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“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your
tongue frames deceit.
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You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your
own mother’s child.
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These things you have done and I have been silent; you
thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the
charge before you.
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“Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear
you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.
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Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honour
me; to those who go the right way I
will show the salvation of God.”
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