Psalms [Praises] 50:2-12

²Out of Zion Mountain ridge, Marking, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

³Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

⁴He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah ·contemplation with musical interlude·.

⁷“Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, my people, and I will speak; Israel God prevails, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

⁸I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

¹⁰For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.