The mighty God, the Lord, Speaks, and to earth doth call

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The mighty God, the Lord, speaks, and to earth doth call even from the rising of the sun to where he hath his fall.

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From out of Zion hill, where beauty dwells enshrined, God in his glorious majesty and mighty power hath shined.

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Our God shall surely come, keep silence shall not he: before him fire shall waste, great storms shall round about him be.

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Unto the heavens above he shall send forth his call, and likewise to the earth, that he may judge his people all.

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Together let my saints unto me gathered be, those that by sacrifice have made a covenant with me.

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And then the heavens shall his righteousness declare: because the Lord himself is he by whom men judged are.

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My people Israel, hear: speak will I from on high; against thee I will testify; God, even thy God, am I.

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I for thy sacrifice no blame will on thee lay: nor for burnt-offerings, which to me thou offeredst every day.

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I’ll take no calf nor goats from house or fold of thine:

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beasts of the forest, cattle all on thousand hills, are mine.

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The fowls on mountains high are all to me well known; wild beasts which in the fields do lie, even they are all mine own.

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Then, if I hungry were, I would not tell it thee; because the world, and fulness all thereof, belongs to me.

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Will I eat flesh of bulls? Or goats’ blood drink will I?

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Thanks offer thou to God, and pay thy vows to the Most High.

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And call upon me when in trouble thou shalt be; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glory give to me.

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But to the wicked man God saith, Why dost thou dare my covenant in thy mouth to take, my statutes to declare?

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Yet thou instruction wise perversely hated hast, likewise my words behind thy back thou in contempt dost cast.

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Thou didst to him consent, when thou a thief hast seen; and with the vile adulterers thou hast partaker been.

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Thou giv’st thy mouth to ill, thy tongue deceit doth frame;

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thou sitt’st, and ‘gainst thy brother speak’st; thy mother’s son dost shame.

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Because I silence kept, while thou these things hast wrought; that I was altogether like thyself hath been thy thought:

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Yet I will thee reprove, and set before thine eyes, arrayed in order, thy misdeeds, and thine iniquities.

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Now, ye that God forget, consider this with care; lest I, when there is none to save, do you in pieces tear.

Verse 24

He doth me glorify who offers to me praise; and him I'll God’s salvation show that orders right his ways.