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¹ The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. ² Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty. ³ God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest. ⁴ He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. ⁵ Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices. ⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God. ⁸ I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually. ⁹ I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks. ¹⁰ For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen. ¹¹ I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine. ¹² If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it. ¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High. ¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

¹⁶ But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth? ¹⁷ Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee. ¹⁸ If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers. ¹⁹ Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit. ²⁰ Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother’s son. ²¹ These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee, but I will reprove thee, and set thine offences before thee. ²² Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer. ²³ The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.