The Mighty One, God the LORD,
has spoken and called the
earth
from the rising of the sun
to its going down.
Out of Zion, the perfection
of beauty,
God will shine forth.
Our God shall come, and
shall not keep silent;
a fire shall devour before
him,
and it shall be very
tempestuous all around him.
He shall call to the
heavens from above,
and to the earth, that he
may judge his people:
“Gather my saints together
to me,
those who have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice.”
Let the heavens declare his
righteousness,
for God himself is
Judge. Selah
“Hear, O my people, and I
will speak,
O Israel, and I will
testify against you;
I am God, your God!
I will not rebuke you for
your sacrifices
or your burnt offerings,
which are continually
before me.
I will not take a bull from
your house,
nor goats out of your
folds.
For every beast of the
forest is mine,
and the cattle on a
thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the
mountains,
and the wild beasts of the
field are mine.
“If I were hungry, I would
not tell you;
for the world is mine, and
all its fullness.
Will I eat the flesh of
bulls,
or drink the blood of
goats?
Offer to God thanksgiving,
and pay your vows to the
Most High.
Call upon me in the
day of trouble;
I will deliver you,
and you shall glorify me.”
But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to
declare my statutes,
or take my covenant in your
mouth,
seeing you hate instruction
and cast my words behind
you?
When you saw a thief, you
consented with him,
and have been a partaker with
adulterers.
You give your mouth to
evil,
and your tongue frames
deceit.
You sit and speak against
your brother;
you slander your own
mother’s son.
These things you have done,
and I kept silent;
you thought that I was
altogether like you;
but I will rebuke you,
and set them in order
before your eyes.
“Now consider this, you who
forget God,
lest I tear you in pieces,
and there be none to
deliver:
whoever offers praise
glorifies me;
and to him who orders his
conduct aright
I will show the salvation
of God.”
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