⁰A psalm of Asaph.

¹The Mighty God, Yahweh, has spoken and summoned the land from the rising of the sun to its setting.

²From Zion, the perfection of splendor, God has shone out.

³Our God comes and does not keep silent; fire eats before him, and around him it is tempestuous exceedingly.

⁴He calls to the skies from above, and to the land, to judge his people:

⁵Gather to me my faithful ones, those who cut my covenant over a sacrifice.

⁶The skies told his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

⁷Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you: God, your God, am I.

⁸Not over your sacrifices do I reprove you, nor your burnt offerings, which are before me continually.

⁹I will not take a young bull from your house, nor goats from your folds.

¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹I know every bird of the mountains, and what moves in the field is with me.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that fills it.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of mighty bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Sacrifice thanksgiving to God, and pay your vows to the Most High,

¹⁵And call out to me in a day of distress; I will rescue you, and you will honor me.

¹⁶And to the wicked, God said: What is it to you to recount my decrees, that you take up my covenant on your mouth?

¹⁷You hated discipline, and threw my words behind you.

¹⁸When you saw a thief, you were pleased with him, and your portion is with adulterers.

¹⁹You let your mouth loose for evil, and your tongue yokes deceit.

²⁰You sit and speak against your brother; you put a fault on the child of your mother.

²¹These things you did, and I kept silent; you imagined that I am just like you. I will rebuke you, and lay the case out in order before your eyes.

²²Consider this, please, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces and there be no one to rescue.

²³One who sacrifices thanksgiving honors me, and to one who sets his way I will show the salvation of God.