| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 9 | I will take no
bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
