1 ¶ The God of gods, even the LORD, has spoken and convocated the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

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

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

4 H e shall convocate the heavens of above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 G ather my merciful ones together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

6 A nd the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is the judge. 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 regarding thy sacrifices; 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 F or 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 with me.

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

13 M ust I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

14 S acrifice praise unto God and pay 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 ¶ But unto the wicked God saith, What part hast thou to declare my statutes or that thou should take my covenant in thy mouth?

17 S eeing thou dost hate chastening and dost cast my words behind thee.

18 W hen thou didst see a thief, then thou didst consent with him and hast been partaker with adulterers.

19 T hou didst give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.

20 T hou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother’s son.

21 T hese things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou didst think that I was altogether such a one as thyself, but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.

22 N ow consider this, ye that forget God, lest I take you away, and there be none to deliver.

23 W hosoever sacrifices praise glorifies me; and to him that orders his ways aright I will show the salvation of God.