Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
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The mighty one, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.
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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3 God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.
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Our God comes and does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, and a mighty tempest all around him.
4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
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He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
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"Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.
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The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
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"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8 I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.
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Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.
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I will not accept a bull from your house, or goats from your folds.
10 For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
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For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
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I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
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"If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all that is in it is mine.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
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Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.
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Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.
15 And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.
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Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
16 But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?
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But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
17 Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee.
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For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
18 If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.
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You make friends with a thief when you see one, and you keep company with adulterers.
19 Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.
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"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20 Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother’s son.
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You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother's child.
21 These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee, but I will reprove thee, and set thine offences before thee.
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These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
22 Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer.
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"Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.
23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.
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Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me; to those who go the right way I will show the salvation of God."
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.
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