Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

139 O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me.

² Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

³ Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue, but lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether.

⁵ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

⁷ Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there.

⁹ If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

¹⁰ even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,” even the night shall be light about me.

¹² Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee, but the night shineth as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.

¹³ For Thou hast possessed my reins. Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.

¹⁵ My substance was not hid from Thee when I was made in secret, and intricately wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in Thy book all my members were written, which in continuity were fashioned, when as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷ How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with Thee.

²¹ Seven years old was Joash when he began to reign.

12 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash began to reign, and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

² And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

³ But the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

⁴ And Joash said to the priests, “All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord,

⁵ let the priests take it to themselves, every man from his acquaintance; and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.”

⁶ But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of King Joash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

⁷ Then King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said unto them, “Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? Now therefore receive no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.”

⁸ And the priests consented to receive no more money from the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

⁹ But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it up in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

¹¹ And they gave the money, being counted, into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders who wrought upon the house of the Lord,

¹² and to masons and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

¹³ However, there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver from the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.

¹⁴ But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.

¹⁵ Moreover they reckoned not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on the workmen, for they dealt faithfully.

¹⁶ The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord; it was the priests’.

5 Come now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

² Your riches are corrupted and your garments motheaten.

³ Your gold and silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

⁵ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

⁶ Ye have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist you.