Psa 50:7-23 | ESV | STEP | Hear , O my people , and I will speak ; O Israel , I will testify against you. I am God , your God .

Psalms 50:7-23

7 ^a“Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you.
^bI am God, your God.
8 Not for your sacrifices ^cdo 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 beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 ^dI know all the birds of the hills,
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
^efor the world and its fullness are mine.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14 ^fOffer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, ^{▼▼Or Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God}
and ^hperform your vows to the Most High,
15 and ⁱcall upon me in the day of trouble;
I will ^jdeliver you, and you shall ^kglorify me.”
16 But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
17 ^lFor you hate discipline,
^mand you cast my words behind you.
18 If you see a thief, ⁿyou are pleased with him,
^oand you keep company with adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil,
^pand your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother’s son.
21 These things you have done, and I ^qhave been silent;
you thought that I ^{▼▼Or that the I am} was one like yourself.
But now I ^srebuke you and ^tlay the charge before you.
22 “Mark this, then, you who ^uforget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there be ^vnone to deliver!
23 The one who ^woffers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who ^xorders his way rightly
I will show the ^ysalvation of God!”