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1The Mighty One, God the Lord ,[#Josh. 22:22]
speaks and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,[#Lam. 2:15]
God shines forth.
3Our God comes; he does not keep silence;[#Ex. 19:16; #50:3 Or May our God come, and not keep silence]
before him is a devouring fire,
around him a mighty tempest.
4He calls to the heavens above[#Deut. 4:26; 31:28; 32:1; Isa. 1:2; Mic. 6:1, 2]
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5“Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
6The heavens declare his righteousness,[#Ps. 89:5; 97:6; Rev. 16:5, 7; 19:2]
for God himself is judge! Selah
7“Hear, O my people, and I will speak;[#Ps. 81:8; Ps. 49:1]
O Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
8Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;[#Ps. 40:6]
your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.
10For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the hills,[#Matt. 10:29]
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12“If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and its fullness are mine.
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[#23; Ps. 27:6; 69:30; 107:22; Heb. 13:15; Hos. 14:2; Rom. 12:1; #50:14 Or Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God]
and perform your vows to the Most High,
15and call upon me in the day of trouble;[#Ps. 81:7; Zech. 13:9; Ps. 107:6]
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
16But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
17For you hate discipline,[#Rom. 2:21, 22]
and you cast my words behind you.
18If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,[#Rom. 1:32]
and you keep company with adulterers.
19“You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
20You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother’s son.
21These things you have done, and I have been silent;[#Eccles. 8:11; Isa. 57:11]
you thought that I was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
22“Mark this, then, you who forget God,[#Ps. 9:17]
lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
23The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;[#14, 15]
to one who orders his way rightly
I will show the salvation of God!”