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.
Out of Zion,
the perfection
of beauty,
God
hath shined.
Our God
shall come,
and shall not keep silence:
a fire
shall devour
before
him, and it shall be very
tempestuous
round about
him.
He shall call
to the heavens
from above,
and to the earth,
that he may judge
his people.
Gather
my saints
together unto me; those that have made
a covenant
with me by sacrifice.
And the heavens
shall declare
his righteousness:
for God
is judge
himself. Selah.
Hear,
O my people,
and I will speak;
O Israel,
and I will testify
against thee: I am God,
even thy God.
I will not reprove
thee for thy sacrifices
or thy burnt offerings,
to have been continually
before me.
I will take
no bullock
out of thy house,
nor he goats
out of thy folds.
For every beast
of the forest
is mine, and the cattle
upon a thousand
hills.
I know
all the fowls
of the mountains:
and the wild beasts
of the field
are mine.
If I were hungry,
I would not tell
thee: for the world
is mine, and the fulness
thereof.
Will I eat
the flesh
of bulls,
or drink
the blood
of goats?
Offer
unto God
thanksgiving;
and pay
thy vows
unto the most High:
And call
upon me in the day
of trouble:
I will deliver
thee, and thou shalt glorify
me.
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?
Seeing thou hatest
instruction,
and castest
my words
behind
thee.
When thou sawest
a thief,
then thou consentedst
with him, and hast been partaker
with adulterers.
Thou givest
thy mouth
to evil,
and thy tongue
frameth
deceit.
Thou sittest
and speakest
against thy brother;
thou
slanderest
thine own mother's
son.
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.
Now consider
this, ye that forget
God,
lest I tear you in pieces,
and there be none to deliver.
Whoso offereth
praise
glorifieth
me: and to him that ordereth
his conversation
aright will I shew
the salvation
of God.
