Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

146 Praise ye the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!

² While I live will I praise the Lord; I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

³ Put not your trust in princes, nor in a son of man in whom there is no help.

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

⁵ Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

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

⁷ who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth food to the hungry; the Lord looseth the prisoners.

⁸ The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind; the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down; the Lord loveth the righteous.

⁹ The Lord preserveth the strangers, He relieveth the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever, even Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord!

³ A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

⁴ They that forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.

⁵ Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

⁶ Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

⁷ Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son, but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

⁸ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

⁹ He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

¹⁰ Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way shall himself fall into his own pit, but the upright shall possess good things.

2 And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

² wherein in times past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.

³ Among these also we all had our manner of living in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love wherewith He loved us,

⁵ even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved),

⁶ and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

⁷ that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God—

⁹ not by works, lest any man should boast.

¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath beforehand ordained, that we should walk in them.