A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

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

Our God comes, and does not keep silence; a fire devours before him, and there is a mighty tempest around him.

He calls to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Gather my pious ones together to me; those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God is judge himself. Selah.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are continually before me.

I will accept no bull from your house, nor male goats from your folds.

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand mountains.

I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and all that fills it.

Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High;

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will save you, and you shall glorify me.

But to the wicked man God says, What right have to you to declare my statutes, or to take my covenant in your mouth?

For you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you.

If you see a thief, you consort with him, and you keep company with adulterers.

You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander the son of your own mother.

You have done these things, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was one like yourself; but I will rebuke you and set the matter before your eyes.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to save.

Whoever offers praise glorifies me; and to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.