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Psalms 49

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

49:1

A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof].

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49:2

Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.

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49:3

God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

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49:4

He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

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49:5

Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

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49:6

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

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49:7

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

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49:8

I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

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49:9

I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.

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49:10

For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

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49:11

I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

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49:12

If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness of it.

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49:13

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

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49:14

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

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49:15

And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

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49:16

But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

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49:17

Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind [thee].

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49:18

If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.

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49:19

Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.

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49:20

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalise thy mother's son.

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49:21

These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee; [but] I will reprove thee, and set [thine offences] before thee.

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49:22

Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there be no deliverer.

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49:23

The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.

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