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1 THE mighty God, even the LORD, 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. | |
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. | |
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. | |
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. | |
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. | |
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. | |
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been 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, 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. | |
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 castest 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. | |
