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Psalm 50
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The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the
rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
 "The Lord has spoken and has called the
earth"
(Unknown, 12th Century)
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| 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
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| 50:3
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before
him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
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He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may
judge his people. |
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| 50:5
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me
by sacrifice. |
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And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself.
Selah. |
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Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against
thee: I am God, even thy God. |
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| 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have
been continually before me. |
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| 50:9
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
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| 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand
hills. |
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| 50:11
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
are mine. |
 (50:11-12)
"I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
are mine. ... The world is mine, and the fulness thereof."
God takes credit for the entire creation. Preadators, prey, parasite, and host: God purposefully
designed them all.
Who owns the earth?
(50:13)
"Will I eat the flesh
of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?"
Does God desire bloody sacrifices?
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| 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the
fulness thereof.
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| 50:13
Will I eat the flesh
of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
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| 50:14
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
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| 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify me.
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| 50:16
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my
statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? |
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| 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee. |
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| 50:18
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been
partaker with adulterers. |
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| 50:19
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. |
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| 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own
mother's son. |
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These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I
was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them
in order before thine eyes. |
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| 50:22
Now consider this, ye
that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to
deliver. |
If you forget God, he'll tear you into pieces.
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| 50:23
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his
conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
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