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Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. Selah.

Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.

Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David, in the coming inn unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness.

The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God [is] all the day.

Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,

To the Overseer. -- `On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, [One] seeking God.

Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

There they feared a fear -- there was no fear, For God hath scattered the bones of him Who is encamping against thee, Thou hast put to shame, For God hath despised them.

Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God turneth back [to] a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!