1The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. (Joz 22,22; Ps 113,3)2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. (Pwt 33,2; Ps 80,1; Ps 94,1; Lm 2,15)3Our God comes; he does not keep silence;[1] before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. (Wj 19,16; Kpł 10,2; Lb 16,35; Ps 21,9; Ps 97,3; Dn 7,10)4He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: (Pwt 4,26; Pwt 31,28; Pwt 32,1; Iz 1,2; Mi 6,1; Mi 6,2)5“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” (Rdz 15,9; Wj 24,7; Wj 24,8)6The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah (Ps 58,11; Ps 75,7; Ps 89,5; Ps 97,6; Ap 16,5; Ap 16,7; Ap 19,2)7“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. (Wj 20,2; Ps 49,1; Ps 81,8)8Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. (Ps 40,6)9I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.10For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.11I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. (Mt 10,29)12“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. (Ps 24,1)13Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?14Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[2] and perform your vows to the Most High, (Lb 30,2; Pwt 23,21; Job 22,27; Ps 22,25; Ps 27,6; Ps 50,23; Ps 61,8; Ps 65,1; Ps 69,30; Ps 76,11; Ps 107,22; Ps 116,14; Ps 116,18; Kazn 5,4; Kazn 5,5; Oz 14,2; Rz 12,1; Hbr 13,15)15and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” (Ps 22,23; Ps 50,23; Ps 81,7; Ps 91,15; Ps 107,6; Za 13,9)16But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. (1 Krl 14,9; Neh 9,26; Rz 2,21; Rz 2,22)18If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. (Rz 1,32; 1 Tm 5,22)19“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. (Ps 52,2)20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.21These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I[3] was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. (2 Krl 19,4; Job 13,18; Job 23,4; Ps 90,8; Kazn 8,11; Iz 57,11)22“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver! (Ps 7,2; Ps 9,17)23The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” (Ps 50,14; Ps 91,16; Ga 6,16)