The Mighty One Calls

1(49:1) A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

2(49:2) Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.

3(49:3) God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

4(49:4) He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

5(49:5) Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

6(49:6) And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

7(49:7) Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

8(49:8) I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

9(49:9) I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.

10(49:10) For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

11(49:11) I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

12(49:12) If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.

13(49:13) Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14(49:14) Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

15(49:15) And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

16(49:16) But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

17(49:17) Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee.

18(49:18) If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.

19(49:19) Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.

20(49:20) Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother's son.

21(49:21) These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee, but I will reprove thee, and set thine offences before thee.

22(49:22) Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer.

23(49:23) The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.