4He summons the heavens above and the earth to judge his people.
5Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him;
6that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. Selah
7“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
8Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me
9Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor he-goats out of your folds;
10for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
12Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
13Am I such as to eat bulls' flesh, or drink the blood of goats?