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| [1]The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. |
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| [2]Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty. |
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| [3]God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest. |
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| [4]He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. |
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| [5]Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices. |
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| [6]And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause. |
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| [7]Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God. |
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| [8]I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually. |
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| [9]I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks. |
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| [10]For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen. |
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| [11]I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine. |
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| [12]If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it. |
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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 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 affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause. |
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| [16]But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth? |
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| [17]Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee. |
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| [18]If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers. |
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| [19]Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit. |
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| [20]Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother's son. |
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| [21]These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee, but I will reprove thee, and set thine offences before thee. |
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| [22]Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer. |
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| [23]The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God. |
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