•God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people: Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice! And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

⁷Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God. ⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me; ⁹I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds: ¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills; ¹¹I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine: ¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. ¹³Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High; ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth, ¹⁷Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee? ¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers; ¹⁹Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit; ²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother’s son: ²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. ²²Now consider this, ye that forget †God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer. ²³Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth his way will I shew the salvation of God.

Psalm 51

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.

Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest. Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

⁷Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ⁸Make me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. ⁹Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. ¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. ¹¹Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not the spirit of thy holiness from me. ¹²Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a willing spirit sustain me. ¹³I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall return unto thee.

¹⁴Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. ¹⁵Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise. ¹⁶For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering. ¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. ¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. ¹⁹Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

Psalm 52

To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.

Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of •God abideth continually. Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit. Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue! •God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, ⁷Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his avarice. ⁸But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever. ⁹I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it; and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is good.

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