7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.
8. I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9. I will take no bullock out of your house, nor male goats out of your folds.
10. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12. If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14. Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay your vows unto the most High:
15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
16. But unto the wicked God says,
17. Seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you.
18. When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.