| 1 | A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting, |
| 2 | from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty. |
| 3 | God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him. |
| 4 | He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people. |
| 5 | Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices. |
| 6 | And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge. |
| 7 | Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God. |
| 8 | I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight. |
| 9 | I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks. |
| 10 | For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen. |
| 11 | I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me. |
| 12 | If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude. |
| 13 | Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats? |
| 14 | Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High. |
| 15 | And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me. |
| 16 | But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth? |
| 17 | Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you. |
| 18 | If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers. |
| 19 | Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits. |
| 20 | Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother's son. |
| 21 | These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face. |
| 22 | Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you. |
| 23 | The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God. |
