Psaumes 50.17
English standard version

Les sacrifices agréables à Dieu

¹ A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God the Lord,
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting
² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth
³ Our God comes; he does not keep silence;
before him is a devouring fire,
around him a mighty tempest
⁴ He 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!
⁶ The 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.
⁸ Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.
⁹ I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.
¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know all the birds of the hills,
and all that moves in the field is mine.
¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and its fullness are mine.
¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and perform your vows to the Most High,
¹⁵ and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
¹⁶ But to the wicked God says:
What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
¹⁷ For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.
¹⁸ If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
and you keep company with adulterers.
¹⁹ You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother's son.
²¹ These 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 tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
²³ The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who orders his way rightly
I will show the salvation of God!