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702 Book of Psalms

14 This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O
them: and afterwards they shall delight in their Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy
mouth. God.
15 They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and
feed upon them. And the just shall have domin- thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
ion over them in the morning; and their help 9 I will not take calves out of thy house: nor
shall decay in hell from their glory. he goats out of thy flocks.
16 But God will redeem my soul from the 10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine:
hand of hell, when he shall receive me. the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
17 Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be 11 I know all the fowls of the air: and with
made rick, and when the glory of his house shall me is the beauty of the field.
be increased. 12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee:
18 For when he shall die he shall take nothing for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
away; nor shall his glory descend with him. 13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I
19 For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: drink the blood of goats?
and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well 14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and
to him.
pay thy vows to the most High.
20 He shall g in to the gneerations of his fa-
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I
thers: and he shall never see light.
will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
21 Man when he was in honour did not un-
16 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost
derstand: he hath been compared to senseless
thou declare my justices, and take my covenant
beasts, and made like to them.
in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast
Chapter 49 cast my words behind thee.
18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with
A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord him: and with adulterers thou hast been a par-
hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From taker.
the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof: 19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and
2 Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty. thy tongue framed deceits.
3 God shall come manifestly: our God shall 20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy
come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy
burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be mother’s son:
round about him. 21 These things hast thou done, and I was
4 He shall call heraven from above, and the silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should
earth, to judge his people. be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set
5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who before thy face.
set his covenant before sacrifices. 22 Understand these things, you that forget
6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none
God is judge. to deliver you.