50:1  The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, and summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

50:2  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.

50:3  May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it looks very tempestuous around Him.

50:4  He summons the heavens above, and the earth, to judge His people:

50:5  "Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."

50:6  And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself judges. Selah.

50:7  " Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I exist as God, your God.

50:8  "I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings you continually place before Me.

50:9  "I shall take no young bull out of your house nor male goats out of your folds.

50:10  "For every beast of the forest belongs to Me, The cattle on a thousand hills.

50:11  "I know every bird of the mountains, and everything that moves in the field belongs to Me.

50:12  "If I hungered I would not tell you, For the world belongs to Me, and all it contains.

50:13  "Shall I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of male goats?

50:14  "Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High;

50:15  Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me."

50:16  But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth?

50:17  "For you hate discipline, and you cast My words behind you.

50:18  "When you see a thief, you enjoy serving as his companion, and you associate with adulterers.

50:19  "You let your mouth loose in evil And your tongue frames deceit.

50:20  "You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.

50:21  "These things you have done and I kept silence; You thought that I acted just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

50:22  "Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and no one will deliver you.

50:23  "He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; and to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God."