The Book of Psalms

[A Psalm of Asaph] God, Jehovah God has spoken, and calls to the earth from the rising of the sun to [its] setting.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, to judge His people.

Gather My saints together to Me, those who cut My covenant by sacrifice.

And the heavens shall declare His righteousness, for God Himself [is] judge. Selah.

Hear, My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you; I [am] God, your God.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings [are] continually before Me;

I will take no bull out of your house, [nor] he-goats out of your folds,

for every beast of the forest [is] Mine; the cattle on a thousand hills;

I know all the birds of the mountains; and all moving in My fields [are] Mine;

if I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world [is] Mine, and the fullness of it.

Will I eat the flesh of mighty [ones], and will I drink the blood of he-goats?

Offer thanksgiving to God; and pay your vows to the Most High.

And call on Me in the day of distress; and I will save you; and you shall glorify Me.

But to the wicked, God says, What [is it] to you to proclaim My statutes, and to take up My covenant on your mouth?

Yea, you hate instruction, and toss My words behind you?

When you saw a thief, you were pleased with him; and you [have taken] part with adulterers.

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

You sit; you speak against your brother; the son of your mother; you give slander.

You have done these [things], and I have kept silence; you thought [that] surely I would be like you; [but] I will rebuke you and set in order before your eyes.

Now think of this, you who forget God, lest I tear, and not any to deliver:

Whoever offers thanks glorifies Me; and he who prepares a way, I will show the salvation of God to him.