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Rh :I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;
 * And thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me.
 * I will take no bullock out of thy house,
 * Nor he-goats out of thy folds.
 * For every beast of the forest is Mine,
 * And the cattle upon a thousand hills.
 * I know all the fowls of the mountains;
 * And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
 * If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;
 * For the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.
 * Do I eat the flesh of bulls,
 * Or drink the blood of goats?
 * Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving;
 * And pay thy vows unto the Most High;
 * And call upon Me in the day of trouble;
 * I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honour Me.'


 * But unto the wicked God saith:
 * 'What hast thou to do to declare My statutes,
 * And that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth?
 * Seeing thou hatest instruction,
 * And castest My words behind thee.
 * When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him,
 * And with adulterers was thy portion.
 * Thou hast let loose thy mouth for evil,
 * And thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
 * Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
 * These things hast thou done, and should I have kept silence?
 * Thou hadst thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself;
 * But I will reprove thee, and set the cause before thine eyes.


 * Now consider this, ye that forget God,
 * Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
 * Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving honoureth Me;
 * And to him that ordereth his way aright
 * Will I show the salvation of God.'

For the Leader. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.


 * Be gracious unto me, O God, according to Thy mercy;
 * According to the multitude of Thy compassions blot out my transgressions.
 * Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,
 * And cleanse me from my sin.
 * For I know my transgressions;
 * And my sin is ever before me.
 * Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned,
 * And done that which is evil in Thy sight;
 * That Thou mayest be justified when Thou speakest,
 * And be in the right when Thou judgest.


 * Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
 * And in sin did my mother conceive me.