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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/49.htm" title="Psalm 49">◄</a> Psalm 50 <a href="../psalms/51.htm" title="Psalm 51">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch23050" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn23050" class="cn"><a class="xlef" hlef="#rbk23"><span class="ac">Psalm</span> 50</a><a id="rfn23050000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23050000-1">*</a></h1> <h1 class="cs">The Acceptable Sacrifice</h1> <p class="pf-center"><span id="v23050001" class="ver">1</span>A psalm of Asaph.</p> <p class="chsect">I</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">The God of gods, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">has spoken and summoned the earth</p> <p class="sl1">from the rising of the sun to its setting.<a id="ren23050001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050002" class="ver">2</span>From Zion, the perfection of beauty,</p> <p class="sl">God shines forth.<a id="ren23050002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050003" class="ver">3</span>Our God comes and will not be silent!</p> <p class="sl1">Devouring fire precedes him,</p> <p class="sl1">it rages strongly around him.<a id="ren23050003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050003-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050004" class="ver">4</span>He calls to the heavens above</p> <p class="sl1">and to the earth to judge his people:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050005" class="ver">5</span>“Gather my loyal ones to me,</p> <p class="sl1">those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050006" class="ver">6</span>The heavens proclaim his righteousness,</p> <p class="sl1">for God himself is the judge.<a id="ren23050006-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050006-d">d</a></p> <p class="sli"><i>Selah</i></p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23050007" class="ver">7</span>“Listen, my people, I will speak;</p> <p class="sl1">Israel, I will testify against you;</p> <p class="sl1">God, your God, am I.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050008" class="ver">8</span>Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,</p> <p class="sl1">your burnt offerings are always before me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050009" class="ver">9</span>I will not take a bullock from your house,</p> <p class="sl1">or he-goats from your folds.<a id="ren23050009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050009-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050010" class="ver">10</span>For every animal of the forest is mine,</p> <p class="sl1">beasts by the thousands on my mountains.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050011" class="ver">11</span>I know every bird in the heights;</p> <p class="sl1">whatever moves in the wild is mine.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050012" class="ver">12</span>Were I hungry, I would not tell you,</p> <p class="sl1">for mine is the world and all that fills it.<a id="ren23050012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050012-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050013" class="ver">13</span>Do I eat the flesh of bulls</p> <p class="sl1">or drink the blood of he-goats?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050014" class="ver">14</span>Offer praise as your sacrifice to God;<a id="ren23050014-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050014-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl1">fulfill your vows to the Most High.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050015" class="ver">15</span>Then call on me on the day of distress;<a id="ren23050015-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050015-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl1">I will rescue you, and you shall honor me.”</p> </div> <p class="chsect">III</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23050016" class="ver">16</span>But to the wicked God says:</p> <p class="sl1">“Why do you recite my commandments</p> <p class="sl1">and profess my covenant with your mouth?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050017" class="ver">17</span>You hate discipline;</p> <p class="sl1">you cast my words behind you!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050018" class="ver">18</span>If you see a thief, you run with him;</p> <p class="sl1">with adulterers you throw in your lot.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050019" class="ver">19</span>You give your mouth free rein for evil;</p> <p class="sl1">you yoke your tongue to deceit.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050020" class="ver">20</span>You sit and speak against your brother,</p> <p class="sl1">slandering your mother’s son.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050021" class="ver">21</span>When you do these things should I be silent?</p> <p class="sl1">Do you think that I am like you?</p> <p class="sl1">I accuse you, I lay out the matter before your eyes.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">IV</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23050022" class="ver">22</span>“Now understand this, you who forget God,</p> <p class="sl1">lest I start ripping apart and there be no rescuer.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23050023" class="ver">23</span>Those who offer praise as a sacrifice honor me;</p> <p class="sl1">I will let him whose way is steadfast</p> <p class="sl1">look upon the salvation of God.”<a id="ren23050023-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23050023-i">i</a></p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from 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