Verse 1
The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Verse 2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Verse 3
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy around Him.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Verse 4
He shall call to the heavens above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people.
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Verse 5
Gather My saints together to Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Verse 6
And the heavens shall declare His righteousness: for God Himself is judge. Selah.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Verse 7
Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Verse 8
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before Me.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Verse 9
I will take no bull from your house, nor goats from your folds.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Verse 10
For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Verse 11
I know all the birds of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Verse 12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Verse 13
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Verse 14
Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the Most High:
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Verse 15
And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Verse 16
But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Verse 17
Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Verse 18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Verse 19
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Verse 20
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Verse 21
These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Verse 22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Verse 23
Whoever offers praise glorifies Me: and to him who orders his conversation aright I will show the salvation of God.
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.