1 From the rising of the sun to where it sets,God, the Lord God, speaks,calling out to the earth.
2 From Zion, perfect in beauty,God shines brightly.
3 Our God is coming;he won’t keep quiet.A devouring fire is before him;a storm rages all around him.
4 God calls out to the skies aboveand to the earth in order to judge his people:
5 "Bring my faithful to me,those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
6 The skies proclaim his righteousnessbecause God himself is the judge. Selah
7 "Listen, my people, I will now speak;Israel, I will now testify against you.I am God—your God!
8 I’m not punishing you for your sacrificesor for your entirely burned offerings,which are always before me.
9 I won’t accept bulls from your houseor goats from your corrals
10 because every forest animal already belongs to me,as do the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know every mountain bird;even the insects in the fields are mine.
12 Even if I were hungry, I wouldn’t tell youbecause the whole world and everything in it already belong to me.
13 Do I eat bulls’ meat?Do I drink goats’ blood?
14 Offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving!Fulfill the promisesyou made to the Most High!
15 Cry out to me whenever you are in trouble;I will deliver you, then you will honor me."
16 But to the wicked God says,"Why do you talk about my laws?Why do you even mention my covenant?
17 You hate discipline, andyou toss my words behind your back.
18 You make friends with thieves whenever you see one;you spend your time with adulterers.
19 You set your mouth free to do evil,then harness your tongue to tell lies.
20 You sit around, talking about your own siblings;you find fault with the children of your very own mother.
21 You’ve done these things and I’ve kept quiet.You thought I was just like you!But now I’m punishing you;I’m laying it all out, right in front of your face.
22 So consider this carefully, all you who forget God,or I’ll rip you to pieces with no one to deliver you:
23 The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving is the one who honors me.And it is to the one who charts the correct path that I will show divine salvation."