MY FAVORITE PSALMSPART 103
The Mighty One, God the Lord,
has spoken
And summoned the world from the
rising of the sun to its setting
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth
May our God come and not keep silence
Fire devours before Him,
And it is very tempestuous around Him,
He summons the heaven above,
And the earth to judge His people,
"Gather My godly ones to Me,
Those who have made a covenant
with Me by sacrifice."
And the heavens declare his
righteousness
For God Himself is judge.
"Hear, O My people, and I will speak,
O Israel, I will testify against you,
I am God, your God,
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,
and your burnt offerings are continually
before Me,
I shall take no young bull out of your
house
Nor male goats out of your folds,
For every beast of the forest is Mine
The cattle on a thousand hills,
I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field
is Mine,
If I were hungry, I would not tell you
For the world is mine and all it contains,
Shall I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of male goats?
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving
And pay your vows to the Most High.
And call upon Me in the day of trouble,
I shall rescue you and you shall honor Me."
But to the wicked, God says,"What right have you to tell of My statutes, and to take
My covenant in your mouth?
For you hate discipline,
and you cast My words behind you.
When you see a thief, you are pleased with him.
And you associate with adulterers
You let you mouth loose in evil,
And your tongue frames deceipt
You sit and speak against your brother
You slander your own mother's son,
These things you have done and I kept
silence
You thought that I was just like you
I will reprove you and state the case in order
before your eyes.
Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you in pieces and there be none
to deliver,
He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving
honors Me,
And to him who orders his way aright
I shall show the salvation of God.
next post 18th May
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