| Chapter 50 |
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A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun. --
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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. --
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Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him. --
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He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. --
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Gather my saints together to 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 against thee: I am God, even thy God. --
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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been 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 fowls 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 fullness thereof. --
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Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? --
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Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to 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 to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take 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, then 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 thy own mother's son. --
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These 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. --
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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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Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his deportment aright will I show the salvation of God. --
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