Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

146 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

² As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

³ Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

⁵ Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

⁶ Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

⁷ Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

⁸ Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

⁹ Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.

¹⁰ Jehovah will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluiah!

32 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

² And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.

³ And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken;

⁴ and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

⁵ The vile man shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful:

⁶ for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

⁷ The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

⁸ But the noble deviseth noble things; and to noble things doth he stand.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,

¹³ (for not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

¹⁴ For when [those of the] nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

¹⁵ who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)

¹⁶ in [the] day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.