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¹ A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.³ Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.⁴ He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:⁵ "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"⁶ The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]

⁷ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.⁸ I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.⁹ I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.¹¹ I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.¹² "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?¹⁴ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;¹⁵ and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?¹⁷ For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.¹⁸ If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.¹⁹ "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.²¹ These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.²² "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!²³ He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"