A Psalm by Asaph.

• ¹The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
• and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

• ²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
• God shines forth.

• 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, and 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 flesh 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 none to deliver.

• ²³Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
• and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”