Psalms 50:8-23

⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are 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, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

¹¹I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

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

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

¹⁴Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High;

¹⁵And call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honour Me.'

¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?

¹⁷Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee.

¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.

¹⁹Thou hast let loose thy mouth for 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 should I have kept silence? Thou hadst thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set the cause before thine eyes.

²²Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

²³Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving honoureth Me; and to him that ordereth his way aright will I show the salvation of God.'