The Lord Jehovah, ev’n the most mighty God hath spoken, and called all the world from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
Out of Zion hath God hath appeared in perfect beauty.
Our God shall come and shall not keep silence: a fire shall go before him and shall devour his foes on ev’ry side.
A mighty tempest shall rage around him.
He shall call the heav’n from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Come, gather together my saints together unto me: those that have made a covenant with me with sacrifice.
The heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself.
Thus said the Lord: Hear, O my people, and I will speak; I myself will testify against thee, O Israel, for I am thy God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt off’rings, because they were not alway before me.
I will take no bullock out of thine house, nor the goats out of thy folds.
For all the beasts of the field are mine, and so are all the cattle upon a thousand hills.
I know all the fowls of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the forest are in my sight.
If I be hungry, I will not tell thee, for the world is mine, and all that is therein.
Thinkest thou that I will eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?
Offer praise and thanks unto Jehovah, pay thy vows unto the most High.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, thou shalt glorify me.
But to the wicked this saith the Lord: What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or to take my cov’nant in thy mouth?
Whereas thou hatest to be reformed and casteth my words behind thee.
When thou sawest a thief and thou consentedst with him, and thou hast been partaker with adulterers.
Thou lettest thy mouth to evil, and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit.
Thou art continually speaking against thy brother, thou hast slander’d thine own mother’s son.
These things thou hast done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest wickedly that I am even such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set before thine eyes the things thou hast done.
O consider this, ye that forget the Lord God, lest I pluck you you away and none can help you.
Whoso offereth me thanks and the sacrifice of praise he glorifieth me: and to the juts and upright in his way I will shew the salvation of God.