and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

God shines out.

A fire devours before him.

It is very stormy around him.

to the earth, that he may judge his people:

those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

for God himself is judge. Selah.

Israel, I will testify against you.

I am God, your God.

Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

nor male goats from your pens.

and the livestock on a thousand hills.

The wild animals of the field are mine.

for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

or drink the blood of goats?

Pay your vows to the Most High.

I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

“What right do you have to declare my statutes,

that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

and throw my words behind you?

and have participated with adulterers.

Your tongue frames deceit.

You slander your own mother’s son.

You thought that I was just like you.

I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”