| 1 | The mighty one, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. |
| 2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. |
| 3 | Our God comes and does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, and a mighty tempest all around him. |
| 4 | He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: |
| 5 | “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” |
| 6 | The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah |
| 7 | “Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. |
| 8 | Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. |
| 9 | I will not accept a bull from your house, or goats from your folds. |
| 10 | For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. |
| 11 | I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine. |
| 12 | “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all that is in it is mine. |
| 13 | Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
| 14 | Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High. |
| 15 | Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” |
| 16 | But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips? |
| 17 | For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. |
| 18 | You make friends with a thief when you see one, and you keep company with adulterers. |
| 19 | “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. |
| 20 | You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother’s child. |
| 21 | These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you. |
| 22 | “Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver. |
| 23 | Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me; to those who go the right way I will show the salvation of God.” |