1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets. | C | TOSK |
2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. | C | TOSK |
3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him. | C | TOSK |
4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people: | C | TOSK |
5 “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.” | C | TOSK |
6 And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah | IP | C | TOSK |
7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. | C | TOSK |
8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. | C | TOSK |
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, | C | TOSK |
10 for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. | C | TOSK |
11 I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. | C | TOSK |
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof. | C | TOSK |
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? | C | TOSK |
14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High. | C | TOSK |
15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.” | C | TOSK |
16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? | C | TOSK |
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. | C | TOSK |
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. | C | TOSK |
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. | C | TOSK |
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. | C | TOSK |
21 You 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. | C | TOSK |
22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you: | C | TOSK |
23 He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.” | C | TOSK |