3. Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
4. He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:
5. “Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6. And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for he is a God of justice.
7. “Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.
8. I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
9. I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
10. for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
11. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.
12. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?