| Chapter 50 |
1 | 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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2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
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3 | 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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4 | He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
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5 | Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
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6 | And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
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7 | 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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8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.
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9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
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10 | For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
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11 | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
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12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
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13 | Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
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14 | Offer to God thanksgiving; 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 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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17 | Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
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18 | When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
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19 | Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
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20 | Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.
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21 | 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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22 | Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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23 | Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his deportment aright will I show the salvation of God.
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