God

He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.

Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.

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.

Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings Are before Me continually.

I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.

For Mine is every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.

I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field is with Me.

If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine is the world and its fulness.

Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?

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

And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.

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

Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

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 in 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.

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.

Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.

Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out.

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

Cast me not forth from Thy presence, And Thy Holy Spirit take not from me.

Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, And a willing spirit doth sustain me.