[1] The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, 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 forth. [3] Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him. [4] He calleth to the heavens 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 unto thee: I am God, even thy God. [8] I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are 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 birds 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 the sacrifice of 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, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth, [17] Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee? [18] When thou sawest a thief, 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 a 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 the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way aright Will I show the salvation of God.
