Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

62 Yet my soul keeps silence to God. From Him comes my salvation.

² He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be greatly moved.

³ How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall all be slain. You shall be as a bowed wall, as a wall shaken.

⁴ Yet, they consult to cast him down from his high position. Their delight is in lies. They bless with their mouths but curse with their hearts. Selah.

⁵ My soul, keep silent to God only (for my hope is from Him).

⁶ He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be moved.

⁷ In God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength. In God is my trust.

⁸ Trust in Him always, you people. Pour out your hearts before Him, God our Hope. Selah.

⁹ Surely, men of low degree are a vapor, and the chief men liars. To lay them upon a scale, they are altogether lighter than a breath.

¹⁰ Do not trust in oppression or in robbery. Do not be vain. If riches increase, do not set your heart thereon.

¹¹ God has spoken once, twice I have heard it, that power belongs to God;

¹² and to You, O LORD, mercy. For You reward everyone according to his work. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah

⁸ “The LORD God has sworn by Himself,” says the LORD God of Hosts, “I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces. Therefore, I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.

⁹ “And if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die.

¹⁰ “And his uncle shall take him up and burn him—to carry out the bones out of the house—and shall say to him who is by the sides of the house, ‘Is there still anyone with you?’ And he shall say, ‘None.’ Then he shall say, ‘Hold your tongue. For we may not remember the Name of the LORD.’”

¹¹ For behold, the LORD commands. And He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

¹² Shall horses run upon the rock? Or will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.

¹³ Yet, you rejoice over nothing. You say, “Have we not gotten horns by our own strength?”

¹⁴ “But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O House of Israel,” says the LORD God of Hosts. “And they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the river of the wilderness.”

¹⁴ “And to the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write: ‘These things says the Amen; the faithful and true Witness; the beginning of the creatures of God.

¹⁵ ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I desire that you were either cold or hot.

¹⁶ ‘Therefore, because you are lukewarm - and neither cold nor hot – I am about to spew you out of My mouth.

¹⁷ ‘For you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing,” and do not know how wretched and miserable you are, and poor and blind and naked.

¹⁸ ‘I counsel you to buy from Me gold tried by the fire, so that you may be made rich; and white raiment, so that you may be clothed and that your filthy nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

¹⁹ ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent.

²⁰ ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.

²¹ ‘To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, even as I overcame and sit with My Father on His throne.

²² ‘Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”