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A psalm of Asaph.
The LORD, the Mighty One, is God,
and he has spoken;
he has summoned all humanity
from where the sun rises to where it sets.
The LORD, the Mighty One, is God,
and he has spoken;
he has summoned all humanity
from where the sun rises to where it sets.
The Mighty One Calls
{A Psalm of Asaph.} The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
{A Psalm of Asaph.} The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines in glorious radiance.
God shines in glorious radiance.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Our God approaches,
and he is not silent.
Fire devours everything in his way,
and a great storm rages around him.
and he is not silent.
Fire devours everything in his way,
and a great storm rages around him.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
He calls on the heavens above and earth below
to witness the judgment of his people.
to witness the judgment of his people.
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
“Bring my faithful people to me —
those who made a covenant with me by giving sacrifices.”
those who made a covenant with me by giving sacrifices.”
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Then let the heavens proclaim his justice,
for God himself will be the judge.
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for God himself will be the judge.
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And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
“O my people, listen as I speak.
Here are my charges against you, O Israel:
I am God, your God!
Here are my charges against you, O Israel:
I am God, your God!
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
I have no complaint about your sacrifices
or the burnt offerings you constantly offer.
or the burnt offerings you constantly offer.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
But I do not need the bulls from your barns
or the goats from your pens.
or the goats from your pens.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
For all the animals of the forest are mine,
and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
I know every bird on the mountains,
and all the animals of the field are mine.
and all the animals of the field are mine.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for all the world is mine and everything in it.
for all the world is mine and everything in it.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Do I eat the meat of bulls?
Do I drink the blood of goats?
Do I drink the blood of goats?
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God,
and keep the vows you made to the Most High.
and keep the vows you made to the Most High.
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Then call on me when you are in trouble,
and I will rescue you,
and you will give me glory.”
and I will rescue you,
and you will give me glory.”
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
But God says to the wicked:
“Why bother reciting my decrees
and pretending to obey my covenant?
“Why bother reciting my decrees
and pretending to obey my covenant?
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
For you refuse my discipline
and treat my words like trash.
and treat my words like trash.
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
When you see thieves, you approve of them,
and you spend your time with adulterers.
and you spend your time with adulterers.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Your mouth is filled with wickedness,
and your tongue is full of lies.
and your tongue is full of lies.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
You sit around and slander your brother —
your own mother’s son.
your own mother’s son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
While you did all this, I remained silent,
and you thought I didn’t care.
But now I will rebuke you,
listing all my charges against you.
and you thought I didn’t care.
But now I will rebuke you,
listing all my charges against you.
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.
Repent, all of you who forget me,
or I will tear you apart,
and no one will help you.
or I will tear you apart,
and no one will help you.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.