| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned 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 has shone forth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it is very tempestuous around Him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He summons the heavens above, And the earth, to judge His people: |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And the 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] | 8"I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"I know every bird of the mountains, And everything 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 is Mine, and all it contains. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, And you associate with adulterers. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"You let your mouth loose in evil And your tongue frames deceit. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"These things you have done and I kept silence; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God." |
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