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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.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

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

Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

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

Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.

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.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

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.

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.

Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his avarice.

But 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.

To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put [them] to shame, for God hath despised them.