| Chapter 50 |
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{A Psalm. Of Asaph.} łGod, 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. |