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A Psalm of Asaph.
1 The mighty God, the Lord hath spoke, and he the earth doth call, from the uprising of the sun, thereof unto the fall. 2 The mighty God hath clearly shin’d out of the mount Zion, which is of beauty excellent the full perfection.
3 Our God shall come, and not be still fire shall waste in his sight; and round about him shall be rais’d a storm of veh’ment might. 4 His folk to judge he from above calls heav’ns, and earth likewise. 5 Bring me my saints, that cov’nant make with me by sacrifice.
6 And th’ heavens shall his righteousness show forth apparently: because the mighty God himself a righteous judge will be. Selah. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak, I will testify also to thee, O Israel, I, ev’n thy God, am I.
8 As for thy sacrifices I will find no fault with thee, or thy burnt off’rings, which have been at all times before me. 9 I’ll take no bullocks, nor he goats from house, or folds of thine. 10 For forest beasts, and cattle all on thousand hills are mine.
11 The flying fowls of the mountains all of them do I know: and every wild beast of the field it is with me also. 12 If I were hungry I would not it unto thee declare: for mine the habitable world, and fullness of it are.
13 Of bullocks eat the flesh, or drink the blood of goats will I? 14 Thanks offer unto God, and pay thy vows to the most high. 15 And in the day of trouble sore do thou unto me cry, and I will thee deliver, and thou me shalt glorify.
16 But to the wicked God saith, why dost thou the mention make of my statutes, why in thy mouth should’st thou my cov’nant take? 17 Sith thou dost hate teaching and dost my words behind thee cast. 18 When thou didst see a thief, then thou with him consented hast;
and likewise with adulterers thy part hath been the same. 19 Thy mouth to evil thou dost give, and guile thy tongue doth frame. 20 Thou sittest, thou dost speak against the man that is thy brother: and thou dost slander him that is the son of thine own mother.
21 These things hast thou committed, and in silence I kept close: that I was altogether like thyself, thou didst suppose: I’ll thee reprove, and in order before thine eyes them set. 22 O therefore now consider this ye that do God forget:
lest I you tear, and there be not any deliverer. 23 He glorifieth me that doth praise unto me offer: and he that doth order aright his conversation, to him will I give that he may see God’s salvation.