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

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

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

Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:

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

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

Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] deportment [aright] will I show 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. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

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

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] 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, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth] continually.

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling-place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his wickedness.

But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.

God looked down from heaven 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? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread! they have not called upon God.

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

O that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.