Psalms 49:11-19

¹¹I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

¹²If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness of it.

¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

¹⁵And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

¹⁶But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

¹⁷Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee.

¹⁸If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.

¹⁹Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.