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The Book of Psalms.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Book II

God the Judge of the Righteous and the Wicked

A Psalm of Asaph.


[1]	THE MIGHTY ONE, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
[2]	Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
[3]	Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
[4]	He calleth to the heavens above, And the earth, that he may judge his people:
[5]	Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
[6]	And the heavens shall 1 declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. [Selah
[7]	Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto 2 thee: I am God, even thy God.
[8]	I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And 3 thy burnt-offerings are 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 4 a thousand hills.
[11]	I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. 5
[12]	If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
[13]	Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
[14]	Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High;
[15]	And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

[16]	But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
[17]	Seeing that thou hatest instruction, 6 And castest my words behind thee?
[18]	When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast 7 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 8 thine own mother’s son.
[21]	These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a 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]	Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to 9 him that ordereth his way aright Will I show the salvation of God.

Note 1. Or, declare. [back]

Note 2. Or, against. [back]

Note 3. Or, Nor for thy burnt-offerings, which are &c. [back]

Note 4. Or, upon the mountains where thousands are. [back]

Note 5. Or, in my mind.Heb. with me. [back]

Note 6. Or, correction. [back]

Note 7. Heb. thy portion was with adulterers. [back]

Note 8. Or, givest a thrust against. [back]

Note 9. Or, prepareth a way that I may show him. [back]

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