1 G od, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

2 O ut of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.

3 O ur God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

4 H e will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

5 G ather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!

6 A nd the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

7 H ear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.

8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, he-goats out of thy folds:

10 F or every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;

11 I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

12 I f I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

13 S hould I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

14 O ffer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

15 A nd call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

16 B ut unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

17 S eeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

18 W hen thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;

19 T hou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

20 T hou sittest speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

21 T hese hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: I will reprove thee, and set in order before thine eyes.

22 N ow consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

23 W hoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth way will I shew the salvation of God.