| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people: |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you: |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.” |
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