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50:1 The mighty one, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. 50:3 Our God comes and does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, and a mighty tempest all around him. 50:4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: 50:5 "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!" 50:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.Selah 50:7 "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. 50:8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. 50:9 I will not accept a bull from your house, or goats from your folds. 50:10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 50:11 I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine. 50:12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all that is in it is mine. 50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 50:14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High. 50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me." 50:16 But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips? 50:17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. 50:18 You make friends with a thief when you see one, and you keep company with adulterers. 50:19 "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 50:20 You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother's child. 50:21 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. 50:22 "Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver. 50:23 Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me; to those who go the right way I will show the salvation of God."