A Psalm of Asaph.
The mighty
God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the
earth from the rising of the sun unto the going
down thereof.
02 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God
hath shined.
03 Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it
shall be very tempestuous round about him.
04 He shall call to the heavens from above, and
to the earth, that he may judge his people.
05 Gather my saints together unto me; those that
have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
06 And the heavens shall declare his
righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
07 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel,
and I will testify against thee: I am God, even
thy God.
08 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or
thy burnt offerings, to have been continually
before me.
09 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor
he goats out of thy 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 thee: for
the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows
unto the most High:
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will
deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou
to do to declare my statutes, or that thou
shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my
words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou
consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with
adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue
frameth deceit.
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept
silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether
such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee,
and set them in order before thine eyes.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I
tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to
him that ordereth his conversation aright will I
shew the salvation of God.
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