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Psalms - ch 49 v 1 - 20
- A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
- out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
- God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
- He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
- Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
- And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
- Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
- I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
- I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
- For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
- I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
- If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
- Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
- Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
- And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
- But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth ?
- Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
- If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
- Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
- Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:
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