Psalms 50:4-18

⁴He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!

⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

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

⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

⁹I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds:

¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;

¹¹I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

¹³Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

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

¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

¹⁷Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;