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Chapter 50 |
| 1 | The mighty
God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the
sun unto the going down thereof. |
| 2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of
beauty, God hath shined. |
| 3 | Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round
about him. |
| 4
| He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the
earth, that he may judge his people. |
| 5 | Gather my saints together unto
me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
| 6 | And the
heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
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| 7 | Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee: I am God, even thy God. |
| 8 | I will not reprove thee for thy
sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
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| 9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy
folds. |
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| For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle
upon a thousand hills. |
| 11 | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and
the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
| 12 | If I were hungry, I would not
tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. |
| 13 | Will I
eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
| 14 | Offer unto
God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: |
| 15 | And call
upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify
me. |
| 16 |
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? |
| 17 |
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee. |
| 18 |
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been
partaker with adulterers. |
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19 | Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy
tongue frameth deceit. |
| 20 | Thou sittest and speakest against thy
brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. |
| 21 | These things
hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such
an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine
eyes. |
| 22 |
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in
pieces, and there be none to deliver. |
| 23 | Whoso offereth praise
glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the
salvation of God. |
