The Mighty One Calls

1Chanting to Asaph. The God of gods, Jehovah spake, and he will call the earth from the rising of the sun even to its going down.

2Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God shone forth.

3Our God shall come, and he will not be silent: a fire shall consume before him, and it stormed greatly round about him.

4He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth to judge his people.

5Gather ye my godly ones to me, they cutting out my covenant upon sacrifice.

6And the heavens shall announce his justice: for God himself the judge. Silence.

7Hear ye, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God thy God.

8Not for thy sacrifices will I reprove thee and for thy burnt-offerings, being always before me.

9I will not take a bullock from thy house, from thy fold, he goats.

10For to me all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains.

11I knew all the birds of the mountains and the moving things of the field with me.

12If I shall hunger I shall not say to thee; for to me the habitable globe, and its fulness.

13Shall I eat the flesh of the strong ones, and shall I drink the blood of goats?

14Sacrifice to God thanksgiving, and repay thy vows to the Most High:

15And call upon me in the day of straits: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honor me.

16And to the unjust one God said, What to thee to recount my law, and thou wilt lift up my covenant upon thy mouth?

17And thou hatedst instruction, and thou wilt cast my words behind thee.

18If thou sawest a thief, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery.

19Thou sentest thy month into evil, and thy tongue will contrive deceit.

20Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

21These things thou didst and I was silent; thou thoughtest, being, I shall be like to thee: I will reprove thee, and I will set it in order before thine eyes.

22Understand now this, ye forgetting God, lest I shall rend and none delivering.

23He sacrificing praise shall honor me, and he setting the way I will cause him to look upon the salvation of God.