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King James Version · 1611

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Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

1Unto the end, a psalm of David,

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

2When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee.

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

3Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

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

4Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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

5For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.

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

6To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

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

7For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

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

8For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

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

9Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

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

10To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

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

11Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

12Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

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

13Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

14Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

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

15I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

16Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

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

17O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

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

18For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

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

19A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

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

20Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

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

21Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.

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

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

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