Psalms 50
1. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3. Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
4. He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5. "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant [H1285][G1242] with me by sacrifice."
6. The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
7. "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8. I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9. I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
10. For every animal [H5315] of the forest is mine, and the livestock [H0929]NB1 on a thousand hills.
11. I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
12. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14. Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
15. Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
16. But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant [H1285][G1242] on your lips,
17. since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18. When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
19. "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
20. You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
21. You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
22. "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23. Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Notes and References
v10 Every Nephesh of the forest is mine. All souls belong to God. God has no need of His creation being killed. God does not even hunger for them because all that is in the world is His. (verse 12). All that is His can give Him praise as in Psalm 150.
He says thanksgiving and vows to God is what He wants. God Himself made a covenant with people and animals Hosea 2.18 let us not say this covenant is on our 'lips' and give our mouth to evil, in our words or actions.
Note 1: (Colin Ayres July 2025): There is no use of the word STOCK in reference to animals in the Bible. The word is Behomah, H0929, cattle or beasts that often share in human suffering for sin, they suffer in times of drought and war just as humans do and the same in times of God punishment. In Matthew 21.12,, when Jesus rejected doves being sold in the Temple, this idea of selling lives was rejected.