³Our God comes, he does not keep silence,
before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
⁴He calls to the heavens above and to the earth,
that he may judge his people:
⁵"Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
⁶The heavens declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge! Selah

⁷"Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

⁸I do not reprove you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.
⁹I will accept no bull from your house,
nor he-goat from your folds.
¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹I know all the birds of the air,
and all that moves in the field is mine.

¹²"If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
for the world and all that is in it is mine.
¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and pay your vows to the Most High;
¹⁵and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

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.
¹⁸If you see a thief, you are a friend of his;
and you keep company with adulterers.

¹⁹"You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
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 was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

²²"Mark this, then, you who forget God,
lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
²³He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honours me;
to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"