Through My Bible Yr 1 – August 21

Through My Bible – August 21

Bible reading based on Psalm 50 (NIV84)

See series: Through My Bible

Psalm 50

A psalm of Asaph.

¹ The Mighty One, God, the LORD,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.

² From Zion, perfect in beauty,
God shines forth.

³ Our God comes and will not be silent;
a fire devours before him,
and around him a tempest rages.

⁴ He summons the heavens above,
and the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵ “Gather to me my consecrated ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶ And 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.

⁸ I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

⁹ I have no need of a bull from your stall
or of goats from your pens,

¹⁰ for every animal of the forest is mine,
and the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹ I know every bird in the mountains,
and the creatures of the field are mine.

¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Sacrifice thank offerings to God,
fulfill your vows to the Most High,

¹⁵ and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

¹⁶ But to the wicked, God says:
“What right have you to recite my laws
or take my covenant on your lips?

¹⁷ You hate my instruction
and cast my words behind you.

¹⁸ When you see a thief, you join with him;
you throw in your lot with adulterers.

¹⁹ You use your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit.

²⁰ You speak continually against your brother
and slander your own mother’s son.

²¹ These things you have done and I kept silent;
you thought I was altogether ^[a] like you.
But I will rebuke you
and accuse you to your face.

²² “Consider this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue:

²³ He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me,
and he prepares the way
so that I may show him ^[b] the salvation of God.”