1 A Psalm of Asaph.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
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 call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings,
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house,
10 For every beast of the forest
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; 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 hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 Thou sittest
21 These
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth