Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.

9 I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all thy marvellous works.

² I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy name, O Most High.

³ When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence:

⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

⁶ O enemy! destructions are ended for ever.—Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.

⁷ But Jehovah sitteth for ever; he hath ordained his throne for judgment.

⁸ And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.

⁹ And Jehovah will be a refuge to the oppressed one, a refuge in times of distress.

¹⁰ And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

¹¹ Sing psalms to Jehovah who dwelleth in Zion; tell among the peoples his doings.

¹² For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten.

¹³ Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:

¹⁴ That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation.

16 And Job answered and said,

² I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.

³ Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

⁴ I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

⁵ [But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].

⁶ If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

⁷ But now he hath made me weary; … thou hast made desolate all my family;

⁸ Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

⁹ His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

¹⁰ They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

¹¹ God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.

¹² I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

¹³ His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

¹⁷ Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

¹⁸ O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!

¹⁹ Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.

²⁰ My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.

²¹ Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find doing thus.

⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all his substance.

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

⁴⁹ and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;

⁵⁰ the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,

⁵¹ and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.