[1] A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods -- Jehovah -- hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in. [2] From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone. [3] Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous. [4] He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people. [5] Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice. [6] And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. Selah. [7] Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I. [8] Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually. [9] I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats. [10] For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen. [11] I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me. [12] If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness. [13] Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats? [14] Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows. [15] And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me. [16] And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth? [17] Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee. [18] If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion. [19] Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together, [20] Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander. [21] These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes. [22] Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer. [23] He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
