Psalm L

The Lord the mighty God
Spake, and the earth did call
From the Sun-rising to the place
Of its descent and fall.

Out of holy Sion,
Beauty's perfection,
The Lord hath shined unto man.

Our God shall surely come.
He shall not silent be;
Before him fire doth burn,
And round about he dreadful is,
By his tempestuous storm.

And from the heav'ns above
His pow'rful voice shall call;
And to the earth below, that he
May judge his people all.

Together let my Saints
To me assembled be;
Those that by sacrifice have made
A Covenant with me.

The heav'ns themselves then shall
His righteousness declare,
For it is the great God himself
By whom all judged are.

My people, hear my words,
And what I testifie
Against thee, sinful Israel,
God, even thy God am I.

For want of sacrifice
To me I judge thee not;
Nor because thy burnt-offerings were
Neglected or forgot.

I'le take no calf or goats
From house or fold of thine;

The forest-beasts, and cattle all
On thousand hills are mine.

The fowls on mountains high
Are all to me well known;
Wild beasts which in the fields abide,
Are all of them my own.

And if I hungry were,
I would not tell it thee;
For the whole world, and Its fulness
Doth all belong to me.

I'le not eat flesh of bulls,
Nor goats blood drink will I.

Offer true thanks to God, and pay
Thy vows to the most high.

And call thou upon me
In thy most troublous days,
And then will I deliver thee,
And thou shalt give me praise.

But to the wicked man,
God saith, My word of truth
Should'st thou declare? how dar'st thou take
My Covenant in thy mouth?

Sith thou instruction hat'st,
which should thy life direct,
And my commands behind thy back
Dost cast, and them reject.

When thou a thief didst see,
With him thou then consent'st;
And with the foul adulterer
Thou a partaker went'st.

Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill,
Thy tongue deceit doth frame;

Against thy brother thou dost speak,
Thy mothers son defame.

Because I silence kept,
Whilst thou these things hast wrought,
That I was such a one as thou,
Was thine ungodly thought.
But I will thee reprove,
And set before thine eyes
In order all thy sinful deeds,
And thine iniquities.

Now you that God forget,
In time this well consider,
Lest I in pieces tear you all,
And none can you deliver.

Whoso doth offer praise,
Doth rightly honour me;
And he that orders well his ways,
Shall God's salvation see.