| Chapter 49 |
1 | A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
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2 | out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
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3 | God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
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4 | He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
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5 | Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
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6 | And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
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7 | Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
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8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
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9 | I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
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10 | For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
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11 | I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
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12 | If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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13 | Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
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14 | Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
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15 | And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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16 | But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth ?
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17 | Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
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18 | If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
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19 | Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
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20 | Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:
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21 | these things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
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22 | Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
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23 | The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.
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