7  “Hear, O my people, and I will speak;

O Israel, I will testify against you.

^xI am God, your God.

8  ^yNot for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;

your burnt offerings are continually before me.

9  I will not accept a bull from your house

or goats from your folds.

10  For ^zevery beast of the forest is mine,

the cattle on a thousand hills.

11  ^aI know all the birds of the hills,

and all that moves in the field is mine.

12  “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,

for ^bthe world and its fullness are mine.

13  Do I eat the flesh of bulls

or drink the blood of goats?

14  Offer to God a ^csacrifice of thanksgiving,¹

and perform your vows to the Most High,

15  and call upon me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you shall ^dglorify me.”

22  “Mark this, then, you who ^gforget God,

lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!

23  The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;

to one who orders his way rightly

I will ^hshow the salvation of God!”