| 1 | {A Psalm. Of Asaph.} �God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
| 2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. |
| 3 | Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. |
| 4 | He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people: |
| 5 | Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice! |
| 6 | And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah. |
| 7 | Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God. |
| 8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me; |
| 9 | 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, the cattle upon a thousand hills; |
| 11 | I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine: |
| 12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. |
| 13 | Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats? |
| 14 | Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform 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 into thy mouth, |
| 17 | Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee? |
| 18 | When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers; |
| 19 | Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit; |
| 20 | Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son: |
| 21 | These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether 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 in pieces, and there be no deliverer. |
| 23 | Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God. |