1 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines out.
3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
A fire devours before him.
It is very stormy around him.
4 He calls to the heavens above,
to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 "Gather my saints together to me,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge. Selah.
7 "Hear, my people, and I will speak.
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
10 For every animal of the forest is mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13 Will I eat the meat of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Pay your vows to the Most High.
15 Call on me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
16 But to the wicked God says,
"What right do you have to declare my statutes,
that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
17 since you hate instruction,
and throw my words behind you?
18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
19 "You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
21 You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
22 "Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him."
1 'n Psalm van Asaf. Die God van die gode, die HERE, spreek en roep die aarde, van die opgang van die son af tot sy ondergang toe.
2 Uit Sion, die volkomenheid van skoonheid, verskyn God in ligglans.
3 Onse God kom en kan nie swyg nie. Vuur verteer voor sy aangesig, en rondom Hom storm dit geweldig.
4 Hy roep na die hemel daarbo, en na die aarde, om sy volk te oordeel:
5 Versamel my gunsgenote vir My, hulle wat my verbond by die offer sluit!
6 En -- die hemele verkondig sy geregtigheid, want God staan gereed om te oordeel! Sela.
7 Hoor, my volk, dat Ek kan spreek; Israel, dat Ek jou dit kan inskerp: Ek is God, jou God!
8 Oor jou offers bestraf Ek jou nie, en jou brandoffers is altyddeur voor My.
9 Ek hoef uit jou huis geen stier te neem of bokke uit jou krale nie;
10 want al die wilde diere van die bos is myne, die vee op berge by duisende.
11 Ek ken al die voëls van die berge, en wat roer op die veld, is van My.
12 As Ek honger het, sal Ek jou dit nie sê nie; want die wêreld is myne en sy volheid.
13 Sou Ek vleis van stiere eet of bloed van bokke drink?
14 Offer dank aan God, en betaal jou geloftes aan die Allerhoogste;
15 en roep My aan in die dag van benoudheid: Ek sal jou uithelp, en jy moet My eer.
16 Maar aan die goddelose sê God: Wat vertel jy nog my insettinge en neem jy my verbond in jou mond --
17 terwyl jy die tug haat en my woorde agter jou werp?
18 As jy 'n dief sien, dan geval dit jou by hom, en jou deel is met die egbrekers.
19 Jou mond laat jy los in boosheid, en jou tong vleg bedrog.
20 Jy sit en praat teen jou broer, die seun van jou moeder beskimp jy.
21 Hierdie dinge het jy gedoen, en sou Ek swyg? Jy dink Ek is net soos jy! Ek gaan jou straf en jou dit ordelik voor oë stel.
22 Verstaan dit tog, o Godvergeters, sodat Ek nie verskeur sonder dat iemand red nie.
23 Die een wat dank offer, eer My; en die een wat op sy weg ag gee, hom sal Ek die heil van God laat geniet.