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

"Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

"Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;

But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth?

"Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.

"He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God."

For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

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

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech." Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

"Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge, But trusted in the abundance of his riches And was strong in his evil desire."

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God," They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; There is no one who does good.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men To see if there is anyone who understands, Who seeks after God.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up My people as though they ate bread And have not called upon God?

There they were in great fear where no fear had been; For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you; You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores His captive people, Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Is not David hiding himself among us?" Save me, O God, by Your name, And vindicate me by Your power.