[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; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
[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 beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
[11] “I 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, for the world and its fullness are mine.
[13] “Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
[14] “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
[15] “and call upon 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] “If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, 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 brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
[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.
[22] “Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
[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!”