Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm of David.

110 Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet.

² Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies.

³ Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour: from the womb of the morning [shall come] to thee the dew of thy youth.

⁴ Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand will smite through kings in the day of his anger.

⁶ He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill [all places] with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country.

⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.

²⁰ Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;

²¹ she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:

²² How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?

²³ Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;

²⁵ and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

²⁶ I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;

²⁷ when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:

²⁸ —then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;

³⁰ they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:

³¹ therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.

³² For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.

³³ But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.

4 Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence,—from your pleasures, which war in your members?

² Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

³ Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

⁴ Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

⁵ Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

⁶ But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

⁷ Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.

⁹ Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.