Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ ¶ Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

² Take the song and play the timbrel, the harp of joy with the psaltery.

³ Blow the shofar in the new moon in the time appointed on our solemn feast day.

⁴ For this is a statute of Israel and an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁵ This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt where I heard a language that I did not understand.

⁶ I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from working with clay.

⁷ Thou didst call in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸ ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me,

⁹ no strange god shall be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

¹⁰ I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹ But my people did not hearken to my voice, and Israel did not love me.

¹² So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they walked in their own counsels.

¹³ Oh, if my people would hearken unto me and Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁴ I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵ The haters of the LORD would have submitted themselves unto him, and their time would endure for ever.

¹⁶ And God would have fed them also the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied thee.

31 ¶ In that time, said the LORD, I will be the God unto all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

² Thus hath the LORD said, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness as I went to cause Israel to find rest.

³ The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, I have loved thee with an eternal love: therefore, I have put up with thee with mercy.

⁴ Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambourines and shalt go forth in the chorus of dancers.

⁵ Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant and shall eat them as common things.

⁶ For there shall be a day in which the watchmen upon the Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up into Zion unto the LORD our God.

³⁵ And Jesus said unto them, I AM the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst.

³⁶ But I said unto you, That even though ye have seen me, ye do not believe.

³⁷ All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and he that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.

³⁸ For I came down from the heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

³⁹ And this is the Father’s will who has sent me, that of all whom he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again in the last day.

⁴⁰ And this is the will of him that sent me, That every one who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.