The Mighty One Calls 1 DRA A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof: BSB BSB: A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
2 DRA Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty. BSB BSB: From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
3 DRA God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him. BSB BSB: Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
4 DRA He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people. BSB BSB: He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
5 DRA Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices. BSB BSB: “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
6 DRA And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge. BSB BSB: And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
7 DRA Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God. BSB BSB: “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
8 DRA I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight. BSB BSB: I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
9 DRA I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks. BSB BSB: I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
10 DRA For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen. BSB BSB: for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 DRA I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field. BSB BSB: I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
12 DRA If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. BSB BSB: If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
13 DRA Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats? BSB BSB: Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 DRA Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. BSB BSB: Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
15 DRA And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. BSB BSB: Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
16 DRA But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? BSB BSB: To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
17 DRA Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee. BSB BSB: For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
18 DRA If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker. BSB BSB: When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
19 DRA Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits. BSB BSB: You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
20 DRA Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son: BSB BSB: You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
21 DRA These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face. BSB BSB: 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.
22 DRA Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you. BSB BSB: Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
23 DRA The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God. BSB BSB: He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
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