A Psalm by Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, Psa 113:3Jos 22:22Mat 25:32Amo 3:8Jer 32:18-191Ch 16:37Isa 1:2Neh 9:6
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, Rev 21:23Psa 48:2Psa 80:1Rev 1:16Deu 33:2Hab 3:3-4Hos 5:15Hab 2:20
God shines out.
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. Dan 7:10Num 16:35Lev 10:2Mat 3:12Mal 4:1Psa 97:3-51Ki 19:11-122Th 1:8-9
A fire devours before him.
It is very stormy around him.
He calls to the heavens above, Deu 31:28Deu 32:1Isa 1:2Deu 30:19Deu 4:26Mic 6:1-2Isa 11:3-4Jhn 5:22-23
to the earth, that he may judge his people:
“Gather my saints together to me, Heb 13:20Exo 24:3-8Mat 26:28Heb 12:24Deu 33:2-3Heb 9:10-23Mat 24:31Psa 30:4
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, Psa 97:6Psa 75:7Psa 89:5Rev 19:2Psa 9:16Rom 14:9-122Co 5:10Gen 18:25
for God himself is judge. Selah.
“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Psa 81:8Exo 20:2Exo 19:5-6Jer 2:9Jer 2:4-5Psa 49:1Psa 81:10-121Sa 12:22-25
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Heb 10:4-10Hos 6:6Isa 1:11-31Psa 40:6-8Psa 51:16Jer 7:21-23
Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I have no need for a bull from your stall, Mic 6:6-8Act 17:25Heb 10:4-6Isa 43:23-24Psa 69:31
nor male goats from your pens.
For every animal of the forest is mine, Jer 27:5-6Psa 104:14Psa 8:6-8Dan 2:38Psa 104:24-251Ch 29:14-16Gen 1:24-25Gen 2:19
and the livestock on a thousand hills.
I know all the birds of the mountains. Mat 6:26Gen 1:20-22Job 39:26-30Luk 12:24Ezk 14:15-16Isa 56:9Job 39:13-18Mat 10:29-31
The wild animals of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, Exo 19:5Deu 10:14Psa 24:1-21Co 10:26-28Job 41:11Psa 115:15-16Gen 1:28-30Gen 8:17
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Will I eat the meat of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Heb 13:15Psa 56:12Deu 23:21Psa 107:21-22Psa 116:12-141Pe 2:5Hos 14:2Psa 76:11
Pay your vows to the Most High.
Call on me in the day of trouble. Psa 107:28Psa 91:15Psa 34:3-4Psa 107:19Zec 13:9Jas 5:13Psa 81:7Psa 107:6-13
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
But to the wicked God says, Isa 29:13Psa 25:14Psa 78:36-38Isa 55:6-7Rom 2:17-24Heb 8:9Isa 48:1-22Pe 2:15
“What right do you have to declare my statutes,
that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
since you hate instruction, Neh 9:262Ti 4:3-4Pro 12:1Pro 1:28-291Ki 14:92Th 2:10-12Jer 8:9Pro 1:7
and throw my words behind you?
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, Rom 1:321Ti 5:22Heb 13:4Eph 5:11-13Isa 5:23Jer 5:8-9Job 31:9-11Lev 20:10
and have participated with adulterers.
“You give your mouth to evil. Psa 10:7Jer 9:5Psa 52:2-4Rev 21:8Isa 59:3-4Jas 3:5-9Psa 5:9Psa 55:21
Your tongue frames deceit.
You sit and speak against your brother. Mat 10:21Lev 19:16Pro 10:18Mat 5:11Psa 31:18Rev 12:101Ti 3:11Luk 22:65
You slander your own mother’s son.
You have done these things, and I kept silent. Rom 2:4-5Pro 29:1Ecc 12:14Isa 57:11Psa 94:7-11Ecc 8:11-12Psa 90:8Isa 42:14
You thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
“Now consider this, you who forget God, Job 8:13Hos 4:6Psa 9:17Psa 7:2Deu 32:18Hos 13:8Jer 2:32Psa 10:4
lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, Psa 91:16Jas 3:13Psa 24:4-5Psa 86:12Psa 50:14-15Rom 12:1Psa 25:14Isa 12:2
and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”