12. If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are Mine. [I Cor. 10:26.]
13. Shall I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14. Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High,
15. And call on Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall honor and glorify Me.
16. But to the wicked, God says: What right have you to recite My statutes or take My covenant or pledge on your lips,
17. Seeing that you hate instruction and correction and cast My words behind you [discarding them]?
18. When you see a thief, you associate with him, and you have taken part with adulterers.
19. You give your mouth to 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 kept silent; you thought I was once entirely like you. But [now] I will reprove you and put [the charge] in order before your eyes.
22. Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23. He who brings an offering of praise and thanksgiving honors and glorifies Me; and he who orders his way aright [who prepares the way that I may show him], to him I will demonstrate the salvation of God.