1(A
Psalm of
Asaph.) The
mighty God, even the
LORD, hath
spoken, and
called the
earth from
the rising
of the sun
unto the
going down
thereof.
2Out
of Zion, the
perfection
of beauty,
God hath
shined.
3Our
God shall
come, and
shall not
keep
silence: a
fire shall
devour
before him,
and it shall
be very
tempestuous
round about
him.
4He
shall call
to the
heavens from
above, and
to the
earth, that
he may judge
his people.
5Gather
my saints
together
unto me;
those that
have made a
covenant
with me by
sacrifice.
6And
the heavens
shall
declare his
righteousness:
for God is judge
himself.
Selah.
7Hear,
O my people,
and I will
speak; O
Israel, and
I will
testify
against
thee: I am God, even thy
God.
8I
will not
reprove thee
for thy
sacrifices
or thy burnt
offerings, to
have been continually
before me.
9I
will take no
bullock out
of thy
house, nor he
goats out of
thy folds.
10For
every beast
of the
forest is mine, and the
cattle upon
a thousand
hills.
11I
know all the
fowls of the
mountains:
and the wild
beasts of
the field are mine.
12If
I were
hungry, I
would not
tell thee:
for the
world is mine,
and the
fulness
thereof.
13Will
I eat the
flesh of
bulls, or
drink the
blood of
goats?
14Offer
unto God
thanksgiving;
and pay thy
vows unto
the most
High:
15And
call upon me
in the day
of trouble:
I will
deliver
thee, and
thou shalt
glorify me.
16But
unto the
wicked God
saith, What
hast thou to
do to
declare my
statutes,
or that thou
shouldest
take my
covenant in
thy mouth?
17Seeing
thou hatest
instruction,
and castest
my words
behind thee.
18When
thou sawest
a thief,
then thou
consentedst
with him,
and hast
been
partaker
with
adulterers.
19Thou
givest thy
mouth to
evil, and
thy tongue
frameth
deceit.
20Thou
sittest and speakest
against thy
brother;
thou
slanderest
thine own
mother's
son.
21These 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.
22Now
consider
this, ye
that forget
God, lest I
tear you in
pieces, and there
be none
to deliver.
23Whoso
offereth
praise
glorifieth
me: and to
him that
ordereth his conversation aright will
I shew the
salvation of
God.