050:005 "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." 050:006 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. 050:007 "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. 050:008 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. 050:009 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. 050:010 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. 050:011 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. 050:012 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. 050:013 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 050:014 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. 050:015 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me." 050:016 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, 050:017 seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? 050:018 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. 050:019 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. 050:020 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son. 050:021 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that the I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. 050:022 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver. 050:023 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." 051:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>> Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. 051:002 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. 051:003 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me. 051:004 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge. 051:005 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me. 051:006 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. 051:007 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 051:008 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.