1 The Lord, the most mighty God, has spoken ♦︎
and called the world from the rising of the sun to its setting.
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices, ♦︎
for your burnt offerings are always before me.
16 But to the wicked, says God: ♦︎
Why do you recite my statutes
and take my covenant upon your lips,
17 Since you refuse to be disciplined ♦︎
and have cast my words behind you?
18 When you saw a thief, you made friends with him ♦︎
and you threw in your lot with adulterers.
19 You have loosed your lips for evil ♦︎
and harnessed your tongue to deceit.
20 You sit and speak evil of your brother; ♦︎
you slander your own mothers son.
21 These things have you done, and should I keep silence? ♦︎
Did you think that I am even such a one as yourself?
22 But no, I must reprove you, ♦︎
and set before your eyes the things that you have done.
23 You that forget God, consider this well, ♦︎
lest I tear you apart and there is none to deliver you.
24 Whoever offers me the sacrifice of thanksgiving honours me ♦︎
and to those who keep my way
will I show the salvation of God.