Psalms 49:2-18

²Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.

³God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

⁴He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

⁵Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

⁷Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

⁸I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

⁹I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.

¹⁰For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

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.