PSALM 50:7-15 “’Hear, of My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before Me. I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and all that is in it. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?’”
Verse 14“’Sacrifice (offer) to God thanksgiving [as a tribute of gratitude for His divine grace and goodness]; and repay to the Most High your vows [in affirmation of faithful obedience to the Law and Will of God]. And call upon Me in the day of distress [when pressed hard to a point]; I will save you [as a nation of priests] and you will glorify Me.’”
Verse 15 “But to the wicked says God, ‘What (is it) to you to declare My statutes, and you take up My covenant on your mouth? And you hate discipline, and cast My words behind you? If you saw a thief you were please with him; and with adulterers (is) your part. Your mouth you send to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit; against your brother you speak; the son of your mother (Sarah) you give fault. These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you though (that) being I would be like yourself; I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes. Now think of this you who forget God, least I tear and not is (any) delivering. He who sacrifices [giving an offering of] thanks [for the divine attribute of grace and mercy] glorifies Me, and he who sets a way, I will show him the salvation of God.’”
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