A Psalm by Asaph.
1The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks,
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines out.
3Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
A fire devours before Him.
It is very stormy around Him.
4He calls to the heavens above,
to the earth, that He may judge His people:
5“Gather My saints together to Me,
those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
6The heavens shall declare His righteousness,
for God Himself is judge. Selah.
7“Hear, My people, and I will speak.
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.
Your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
9I have no need for a bull from your stall,
nor male goats from your pens.
10For every animal of the forest is Mine,
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
11I know all the birds of the mountains.
The wild animals of the field are Mine.
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world is Mine, and all that is in it.
13Will I eat the meat of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Pay your vows to the Most High.
15Call on Me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
16But to the wicked God says,
“What right do you have to declare My statutes,
that you have taken My covenant on your lips,
17since you hate instruction,
and throw My words behind you?
18When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
and have participated with adulterers.
19“You give your mouth to evil.
Your tongue frames deceit.
20You sit and speak against your brother.
You slander your own mother’s son.
21You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
22“Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies Me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
1Psalmus Asaph. Deus deorum Dominus locutus est, et vocavit terram a solis ortu usque ad occasum. 2Ex Sion species decoris ejus: 3Deus manifeste veniet; Deus noster, et non silebit. Ignis in conspectu ejus exardescet; et in circuitu ejus tempestas valida. 4Advocabit cælum desursum, et terram, discernere populum suum. 5Congregate illi sanctos ejus, qui ordinant testamentum ejus super sacrificia. 6Et annuntiabunt cæli justitiam ejus, quoniam Deus judex est. 7Audi, populus meus, et loquar; Israël, et testificabor tibi: Deus, Deus tuus ego sum. 8Non in sacrificiis tuis arguam te; holocausta autem tua in conspectu meo sunt semper. 9Non accipiam de domo tua vitulos, neque de gregibus tuis hircos: 10quoniam meæ sunt omnes feræ silvarum, jumenta in montibus, et boves. 11Cognovi omnia volatilia cæli, et pulchritudo agri mecum est. 12Si esuriero, non dicam tibi: meus est enim orbis terræ et plenitudo ejus. 13Numquid manducabo carnes taurorum? aut sanguinem hircorum potabo? 14Immola Deo sacrificium laudis, et redde Altissimo vota tua. 15Et invoca me in die tribulationis: eruam te, et honorificabis me. 16Peccatori autem dixit Deus: Quare tu enarras justitias meas? et assumis testamentum meum per os tuum? 17Tu vero odisti disciplinam, et projecisti sermones meos retrorsum. 18Si videbas furem, currebas cum eo; et cum adulteris portionem tuam ponebas. 19Os tuum abundavit malitia, et lingua tua concinnabat dolos. 20Sedens adversus fratrem tuum loquebaris, et adversus filium matris tuæ ponebas scandalum. 21Hæc fecisti, et tacui. Existimasti inique quod ero tui similis: arguam te, et statuam contra faciem tuam. 22Intelligite hæc, qui obliviscimini Deum, nequando rapiat, et non sit qui eripiat. 23Sacrificium laudis honorificabit me, et illic iter quo ostendam illi salutare Dei.