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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 Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.³ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; a fire shall consume before him, and it shall flame round about him greatly.⁴ He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth, that he may judge his people.⁵ Gather unto him, O you, his saints, those that have made a covenant with him by sacrifice.⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God himself is judge.

⁷ Hear, O my people, and I will speak to you; O Israel, I will testify to thee: I am God, even your God.⁸ I reproved you not for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings; they are continually before me.⁹ I will take no bullocks out of your house nor he-goats out of your folds.¹⁰ For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and the cattle and the oxen upon the hills.¹¹ I know all the fowls of the air; and the wild beasts of the desert are mine.¹² If I were hungry, I should not tell you; for the world is mine and the fulness thereof.¹³ I eat not the flesh of bulls, neither do I drink the blood of goats.¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and fulfil your vows to the most High.¹⁵ Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will strengthen you, and you shall glorify me.

¹⁶ But to the sinner, God says, How have you followed the books of my law? You have observed my covenant lightly,¹⁷ Seeing that you hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you joined with him, and you have been a partaker with adulterers.¹⁹ You have given your mouth to evil and your tongue speaks deceit.²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mothers son.²¹ All of these things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was wicked like you; but I will reprove you, and correct these sins before your eyes.²² Now understand this, O you who forget God, lest you be crushed and there be none to deliver.²³ Whosoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me; and to him will I show the way of the salvation of our God.