Chapter 50

  A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, 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 cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.  

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  He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people:  

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  Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.  

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  And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. Selah  

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  Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, [even] thy God.  

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  I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are 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, And the cattle upon a thousand hills.  

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  I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts 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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  Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?  

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  Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay 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, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,  

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  Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?  

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  When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.  

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  Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.  

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  Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.  

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  These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one 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 you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:  

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  Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way [aright] Will I show the salvation of God.   

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