Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

"Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

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

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

"Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.