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- {A Psalm.
Of Asaph.} God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
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- Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
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- Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
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- He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
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- Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!
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- And the heavens shall declare his righteousness;
for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.
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- Hear, my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
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- I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;
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- I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:
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- For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;
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- I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:
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- If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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- Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?
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- Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;
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- And call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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- But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,
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- Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?
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- When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
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- Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
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- Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
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- These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
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- Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.
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- Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me;
and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.
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