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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The heavens declare 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, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. |
| 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 all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. |
| 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] | 14Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver! |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” |
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