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<> The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. |
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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. |
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Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him. |
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He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people: |
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"Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." |
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The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. |
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"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. |
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I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. |
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I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. |
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For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. |
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I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. |
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If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. |
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Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
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Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. |
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Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me." |
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But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, |
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seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? |
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When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. |
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"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. |
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You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son. |
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You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that the I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. |
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"Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver. |
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Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." |