- A Psalme of Asaph.
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- The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.
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- Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.
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- Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, & a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.
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- Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.
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- Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.
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- And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe.
Selah.
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- Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.
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- I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
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- I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.
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- For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.
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- I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.
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- If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.
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- Will I eate the flesh of bulles?
or drinke the blood of goates?
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- Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,
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- And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
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- But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,
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- Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?
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- For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, & thou art partaker with the adulterers.
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- Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
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- Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.
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- These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.
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- Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, & there be none that can deliuer you.
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- He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.
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