3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: there shall go
before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred
up round about him.
4 He shall call the heaven from above: and the earth, that he may
judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me: those that have made a
covenant with me with sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is Judge
himself.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: I myself will testify
against thee, O Israel; for I am God, even thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy
burnt-offerings: because they were not alway before me.
9 I will take no bullock out of thine house: nor he-goat out of
thy folds.
10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine: and so are the cattle
upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains: and the wild beasts
of the field are in my sight.
12 If I be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the whole world is
mine, and all that is therein.
13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls flesh: and drink the blood
of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving: and pay thy vows unto the most
Highest.
15 And call upon me in the time of trouble: so will I hear thee,
and thou shalt praise me.
16 But unto the ungodly said God: Why dost thou preach my laws,
and takest my covenant in thy mouth;
17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed: and hast cast my words
behind thee?
18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst unto him: and hast
been partaker with the adulterers.
19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness: and with thy tongue
thou hast set forth deceit.
20 Thou satest, and spakest against thy brother: yea, and hast
slandered thine own mother's son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou
thoughtest wickedly, that I am even such a one as thyself: but
I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast
done.
22 O consider this, ye that forget God: lest I pluck you away, and
there be none to deliver you.
23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me: and to him
that ordereth his conversation right will I shew the salvation of
God.
PSALM 51. _Miserere mei, Deus_.
Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to
the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.