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| 1 [[A Melody of Asaph.]] El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof: |
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| 2 Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God, hath shone forth. |
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| 3 Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire–before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous: |
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| 4 He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people. |
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| 5 Gather yourselves unto me–ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice. |
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| 6 Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. [Selah.] |
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| 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am:– |
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| 8 Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually: |
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| 9 I will not take out of thy house–a bullock, Nor out of thy folds–he-goats; |
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| 10 For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands; |
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| 11 I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me: |
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| 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof. |
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| 13 Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink? |
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| 14 Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows; |
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| 15 Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me. |
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| 16 But, to the lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth? |
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| 17 Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee; |
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| 18 If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him,–And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life; |
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| 19 Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit; |
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| 20 Thou wouldst sit down–Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother's son, wouldst thou expose a fault:– |
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| 21 These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set [thine offences] in order before thine eyes. |
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| 22 Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver:– |
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| 23 He that sacrificeth a thankoffering, will glorify me,–And will prepare a way by which I may show him the salvation of God. |
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