A Psalm of Asaph .
1 The mighty God, even the LORD , hath spoken , and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof .
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 round about 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 unto 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 fulness thereof .
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls , or drink the blood of goats ?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving ; and pay thy vows unto the most High :
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble : I will deliver thee , and thou shalt glorify me.
16 But unto 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 thine 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 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.