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Psalm 50
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PSALM 1950
The Acceptable Sacrifice
A psalm of Asaph.
1 The LORD, the God of gods,
has spoken and summoned the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 From Zion God shines forth. perfect in beauty.
3 Our God comes and will not be silent!
Devouring fire precedes,
storming fiercely round about.
4 God summons the heavens above
and the earth to the judgment of his people:
5 "Gather my faithful ones before me,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
6 The heavens proclaim divine justice,
for God alone is the judge. Selah
7 "Listen, my people, I will speak; Israel,
I will testify against you; God, your God, am I.
8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
nor for your holocausts, set before me daily.
9 I need no bullock from your house,
no goats from your fold.
10 For every animal of the forest is mine,
beasts by the thousands on my mountains.
12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you,
for mine is the world and all that fills it.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer praise as your sacrifice to God;
fulfill your vows to the Most High.
15 Then call on me in time of distress;
I will rescue you, and you shall honor me."
16 But to the wicked God says:
"Why do you recite my commandments
and profess my covenant with your lips?
18 When you see thieves, you befriend them;
with adulterers you throw in your lot.
19 You give your mouth free rein for evil;
you harness your tongue to deceit.
20 You sit maligning your own kin,
slandering the child of your own mother.
21 When you do these things should I be silent?
Or do you think that I am like you?
I accuse you, I lay the charge before you.
22 "Understand this, you who forget God,
lest I attack you with no one to rescue.
23 Those who offer praise as a sacrifice honor me;
to the obedient I will show the salvation of God."
    
Juke Box 1950
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