The gathering of the saints -- Obedience enjoined. (A Psalm of Asaph.)

¹⁾The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

²⁾Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

³⁾Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

⁴⁾He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

⁵⁾Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

⁶⁾And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God is judge himself. Selah.

⁷⁾Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee; I am God, even thy God.

⁸⁾I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

⁹⁾I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds;

¹⁰⁾For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

¹¹⁾I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

¹²⁾If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

¹³⁾Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴⁾Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High;

¹⁵⁾And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹⁶⁾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?

¹⁷⁾Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

¹⁸⁾When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

¹⁹⁾Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

²⁰⁾Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

²¹⁾These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set covenants in order before thine eyes.

²²⁾Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none can deliver.

²³⁾Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.