Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

15 The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put trust in thee.

² I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.

³ To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.

⁴ Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I will not gather together their meetings for blood offerings: nor will I be mindful of their names by my lips.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

⁶ The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

⁷ I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover my reins also have corrected me even till night.

⁸ I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved.

⁹ Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh also shall rest in hope.

¹⁰ Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt then give thy holy one to see corruption.

¹¹ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

32 And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: for as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

² And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.

³ And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

⁴ And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

⁵ And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made proclamation by a crier's voice, saying: To morrow is the solemnity of the Lord.

⁶ And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat, and drink, and they rose up to play.

⁷ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

⁸ They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

⁹ And again the Lord said to Moses: See that this people is stiffnecked:

¹⁰ Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.

¹¹ But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation kindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?

¹² Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the wickedness of thy people.

¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to you seed, and you shall possess it for ever.

¹⁴ And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.

1 James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

² My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;

³ Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

⁴ And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

⁵ But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

⁶ But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.

⁷ Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

⁸ A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.