Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

81 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

³ Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

⁶ I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

⁷ But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

⁸ Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

31 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

² Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.

³ The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.

⁴ And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

⁵ Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the time.

⁶ For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.

³⁵ And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.

³⁶ But I said unto you, that you also have seen me, and you believe not.

³⁷ All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

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

³⁹ Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day.

⁴⁰ And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth in him, may have life everlasting, and I will raise him up in the last day.