Berean Study Bible | King James Bible |
1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets. | 1A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. | 2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. |
3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him. | 3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. |
4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people: | 4He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. |
5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.” | 5Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah | 6And 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 you: I am God, your God. | 7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. |
8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. | 8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. |
9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, | 9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
10for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. | 10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. | 11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof. | 12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. |
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? | 13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High. | 14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: |
15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.” | 15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. |
16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? | 16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? |
17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. | 17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. |
18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. | 18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. |
19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. | 19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. |
20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. | 20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. |
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. | 21These 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. |
22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you: | 22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. |
23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.” | 23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. |
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