✧A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets. ✧2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. ✧3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him. ✧4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people: ✧5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.” ✧6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah ✧7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. ✧8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. ✧9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, ✧10for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills. ✧11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. ✧12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof. ✧13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ✧14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High. ✧15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.” ✧16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? ✧17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. ✧18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. ✧19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. ✧20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. ✧21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face. ✧22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you: ✧23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”