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¹ A Psalm of Asaph. {N}from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.³ Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence; ⁴ He calleth to the heavens 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 declare His righteousness; for God, He is judge. Selah

⁷ 'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: ⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are 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 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?¹⁴ Offer unto God the sacrifice of 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 honour Me.'

¹⁶ But unto the wicked God saith: 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?¹⁷ Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee.¹⁸ When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.¹⁹ Thou hast let loose thy mouth for 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 should I have kept silence? Thou hadst thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself; ²² Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver.²³ Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving honoureth Me; and to him that ordereth his way aright will I show the salvation of God.'