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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.
[2]Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.
[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.
[4]He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
[5]Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
[6]And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.
[7]Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
[8]I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.
[9]I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.
[10]For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
[11]I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
[12]If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
[13]Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
[14]Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.
[15]And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.
[16]But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?
[17]Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee.
[18]If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.
[19]Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.
[20]Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother's son.
[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.
[22]Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer.
[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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