1: The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the
earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
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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 round about 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 unto 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 unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto 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 unto 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 thine 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: Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. |