Chapter 50

  {A Psalm. Of Asaph.} ùGod, Elohim-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 will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.  

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  He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:  

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  Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!  

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  And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.  

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

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

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  I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures 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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  Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?  

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  Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform 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, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,  

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  Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?  

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  When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;  

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  Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;  

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  Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:  

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  These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether 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 in pieces, and there be no deliverer.  

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  Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.  

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