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Psalms 50:1
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The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, And calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
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Psalms 50:2
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Out of Tziyon, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
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Psalms 50:3
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Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.
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Psalms 50:4
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He calls to the heavens above, To the earth, that he may judge his people:
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Psalms 50:5
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"Gather my holy ones together to me, Those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
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Psalms 50:6
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The heavens shall declare his righteousness, For God himself is judge. Selah.
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Psalms 50:7
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"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Yisra'el, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
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Psalms 50:8
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I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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Psalms 50:9
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I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.
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Psalms 50:10
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For every animal of the forest is mine, And the livestock on a thousand hills.
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Psalms 50:11
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I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
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Psalms 50:12
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If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.
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Psalms 50:13
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Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
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Psalms 50:14
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Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to Ha`Elyon.
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Psalms 50:15
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Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
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Psalms 50:16
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But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,
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Psalms 50:17
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Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?
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Psalms 50:18
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When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have participated with adulterers.
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Psalms 50:19
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"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
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Psalms 50:20
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You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
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Psalms 50:21
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You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that the "I AM" was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
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Psalms 50:22
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"Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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Psalms 50:23
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Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, And prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." Psalm 51 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Natan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bat-Sheva.
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