Psalms

Chapter 49

The coming of Christ: who prefers virtue and inward purity before the blood of victims.

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A psalm for Asaph.
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God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence.
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He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
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Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
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And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
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Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt-offerings are always in my sight.
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I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he-goats out of thy flocks.
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For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
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I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
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If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine and the fulness thereof.
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Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
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Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
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And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?
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Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
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If thou didst see a thief, thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been partaker.
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Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
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Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son: 21 these things hast thou done, and I was silent.
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Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
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The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.