Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

54 Save me, O God, by Your Name; and by Your power, judge me.

² O God, hear my prayer; hear the words of my mouth.

³ For strangers have risen up against me, and tyrants seek my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.

⁴ Behold, God is my helper. The LORD is with those who uphold my soul.

⁵ He shall reward evil to my enemies. Oh, cut them off in Your truth!

⁶ I will sacrifice freely to You. I will praise Your Name, O LORD, because it is good.

⁷ For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen my desire upon my enemies. To him who excels on Neginoth: A Psalm of David, to give instruction

6 Afterward, the children of Israel committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hands of Midian for seven years.

² And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made themselves dens in the mountains and caves and strongholds.

³ Whenever Israel had sown, then the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and those from the East, and came upon them,

⁴ and camped by them and destroyed the fruit of the earth as far as Gaza, and left no food for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey.

⁵ For they and their cattle went up and came with their tents, as grasshoppers in multitude, so that they and their camels were without number. And they came into the land, to destroy it.

⁶ So was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites. Therefore, the children of Israel cried to the LORD.

⁷ And when the children of Israel cried to the LORD because of the Midianites,

⁸ the LORD sent a Prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I have brought you up from Egypt and have brought you out of the house of bondage.

⁹ ‘And I have delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all who oppressed you and have cast them out before you and given you their land.

¹⁰ ‘And I said to you, “I am the LORD your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.” But you have not obeyed My Voice.’”

2 And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with excellency of words, or of wisdom, showing to you the testimony of God.

² For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

³ And I was among you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴ Neither my word nor my preaching was in the enticing speech of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

⁵ So that your faith would not be in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God.