| 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. |
| 2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. |
| 3 | Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him. |
| 4 | He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. |
| 5 | Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
| 6 | And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. |
| 7 | Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. |
| 8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me. |
| 9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. |
| 10 | For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
| 11 | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
| 12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. |
| 13 | Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
| 14 | Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High: |
| 15 | And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. |
| 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? |
| 17 | Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. |
| 18 | When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. |
| 19 | Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. |
| 20 | Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son. |
| 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. |
| 22 | Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. |
| 23 | Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his deportment aright will I show the salvation of God. |
