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¹ A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun.² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.³ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.⁴ He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.⁵ Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah.

⁷ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, [to have been] 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 fullness thereof.¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?¹⁴ Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹⁶ But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?¹⁷ Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.¹⁸ When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.¹⁹ Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.²⁰ Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.²¹ 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.²² Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.²³ Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] deportment [aright] will I show the salvation of God.