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1 (49-1) <A psalm for Asaph.> The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath 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 (49-2) Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3 (49-3) God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
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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 (49-4) He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
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He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 (49-5) Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
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"Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
6 (49-6) And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
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The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)
7 (49-7) Hear, O my people, and I will speak: 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 (49-8) I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
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Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 (49-9) I will not take calves out of thy 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 (49-10) For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
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For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 (49-11) I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
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I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 (49-12) If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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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 (49-13) Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
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Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 (49-14) 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 (49-15) And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
16 (49-16) But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take 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 (49-17) Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
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For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
18 (49-18) If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
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You make friends with a thief when you see one, and you keep company with adulterers.
19 (49-19) Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
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"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20 (49-20) Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:
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You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother's child.
21 (49-21) These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
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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 (49-22) Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
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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 (49-23) The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew 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."
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