# Psalm 50 A Psalm of Asaph. 
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1. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. 
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2. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. 
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3. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. 
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4. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: 
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5. “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” 
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6. The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah 
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7. “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. 
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8. Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. 
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9. I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. 
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10. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 
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11. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. 
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12. “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. 
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13. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? 
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14. Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, 
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15. and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” 
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16. But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? 
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17. For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. 
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18. If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. 
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19. “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 
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20. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. 
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21. These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. 
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22. “Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver! 
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23. The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” 

(ESV)