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⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;

And thy burnt-offerings are 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,

And the cattle upon a thousand hills.

¹¹I know all the fowls of the mountains;

And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;

For the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls,

Or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving;

And pay thy vows unto the Most High;

¹⁵And call upon Me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honour Me.'

 

¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith:

'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes,

And that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?

¹⁷Seeing thou hatest instruction,

And castest My words behind thee.

¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him,

And with adulterers was thy portion.

¹⁹Thou hast let loose thy mouth for evil,

And thy tongue frameth deceit. ²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;

Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

²¹These things hast thou done, and should I have kept silence?

Thou hadst thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself;

But I will reprove thee, and set the cause before thine eyes.

 

²²Now consider this, ye that forget God,

Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

²³Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving honoureth Me;

And to him that ordereth his way aright

Will I show the salvation of God.'

51 For the Leader. A Psalm of David; ²when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.

³Be gracious unto me, O God, according to Thy mercy;

According to the multitude of Thy compassions blot out my transgressions.

⁴Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,

And cleanse me from my sin.

⁵For I know my transgressions;

And my sin is ever before me.

⁶Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned,

And done that which is evil in Thy sight;

That Thou mayest be justified when Thou speakest,

And be in the right when Thou judgest.

 

⁷Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,

And in sin did my mother conceive me.

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