God summons worshipers to covenant accountability

The God of Zion summons covenant partners to trial

The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. A fire and tempest mark the theophany. Heavens and earth are called that he may judge his people: Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

This is Asaph's prophetic liturgy. The defendants are worshipers, not foreigners first. The covenant made by sacrifice is Israel's own.

Bulls are not divine groceries, and quoting Torah is not cover for theft

God does not reprove them for sacrifices as such; the cattle on a thousand hills are already his. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer thanksgiving; pay vows; call in the day of trouble. Then the address turns: What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, seeing thou hatest instruction, and partakest with adulterers, givest thy mouth to evil, and slanderest thy brother?

Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself. The psalm is not anti-sacrifice and not anti-Jewish. It refuses worship detached from gratitude, truth-telling, and justice. Ordering one's conversation aright is paired with praise as the path where God shows salvation.