Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

139 Unto the end, a psalm for David.

² Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.

³ Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.

⁴ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips.

⁵ Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps.

⁶ The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

⁷ I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.

⁸ O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

⁹ Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

¹⁰ The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.

¹¹ Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

¹² A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

¹³ I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

¹⁴ But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.

²¹ Now Joas was seven years old, when he began to reign.

12 In the seventh year of Jehu Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.

² And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada the priest taught him.

³ But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁴ And Joas said to the priests: O All the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart they bring into the temple of the Lord:

⁵ Let the priests take it according to their order, and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.

⁶ Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas, the priests did not make the repairs of the temple.

⁷ And king Joas called Joiada the high priest and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you therefore money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.

⁸ And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.

⁹ And Joiada the high priest took a chest and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the doors put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.

¹⁰ And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and poured it out, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord:

¹¹ And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of them that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters, and the masons that wrought in the house of the Lord,

¹² And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones, to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of expenses to uphold the house.

¹³ But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord.

¹⁴ For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.

¹⁵ And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.

¹⁶ But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.

5 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

² Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

³ Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

⁴ Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

⁵ You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

⁶ You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.