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 A Psalm to Asaph. 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 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined [forth].

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

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

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

6 And 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 For 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 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world [is] mine and the fullness thereof.

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

14 Sacrifice praise unto God and pay thy vows unto the most High

15 and 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 Seeing thou dost hate chastening and dost cast my words behind thee.

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

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

20 Thou didst sit [and] speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

21 These [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 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I take you [away], and [there be] none to deliver.

23 Whosoever sacrifices praise glorifies me; and to him that orders [his] ways [aright] I will show the salvation of God.: