Psalms 50:12-23

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and all that is therein.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay thy vows to the Most High!

¹⁵Then call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me!”

¹⁶And to the wicked God saith, “To what purpose dost thou talk of my statutes? And why hast thou my laws upon thy lips?—

¹⁷Thou, who hatest instruction And castest my words behind thee!

¹⁸When thou seest a thief, thou art in friendship with him, And hast fellowship with adulterers.

¹⁹Thou lettest loose thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit;

²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Hence thou thoughtest that I was altogether like thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thine eyes.

²²Mark this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and none deliver you!

²³Whoso offereth praise honoreth me; And to him who hath regard to his ways Will I show salvation from God.”