Chapter 49

Christ in his first coming calleth all Nations: ℣.3 in his second will judge the world. ℣.7 In the mean time God exhorteth all men to serve him in purity of virtue, which he much preferreth before external sacrifice of the old law: ℣.17 reprehending such as profess or teach the right way, and live wickedly.

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   A Psalm to Asaph. The God of gods our Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to the going down.

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   Out of Sion the beauty of his comeliness.

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   God will come manifestly: our God and he will not keep silence. Fire shall burn forth in his sight: and round about him a mighty tempest.

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   He shall call the heaven from above: and the earth to discern his people.

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   Gather ye together his Saints unto him: which ordain his testament above sacrifices.

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   And the heavens shall shew forth his justice: because God is Judge.

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   Hear, o my people, and I will speak: Israel, and I will testify to thee: God thy God am I.

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   I will not rebuke thee in thy sacrifices: and thy holocausts are in my sight always.

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   I will not take calves out of thy house: nor buck-goats out of thy flocks.

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    Because all the wild beasts of the woods be mine, the cattle in the mountains and oxen.

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    I have known all the fowls of the air: and the beauty of the field is with me.

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    If I shall be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the round earth is mine, and the fullness thereof.

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    Will I eat the flesh of oxen? Or will I drink the blood of buck-goats?

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    Immolate to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows to the Highest.

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    And invocate me in the day of tribulation: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

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    But to the sinner God hath said: Why doest thou declare my justices, and takest my testament by thy mouth?

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    But thou hast hated discipline & cast my words behind thee.

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    If thou didst see a thief, thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou didst put thy portion.

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    Thy mouth hath abounded with malice: and thy tongue forged guiles.

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    Sitting thou spakest against thy brother, and against thy mother's son thou didst put a scandal:

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    these things hast thou done, and I have held my peace. Thou hast thought unjustly that I will be like thee: I will reprove thee, and set it against thy face.

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    Understand these things you that forget God: lest sometime he take you violently 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.