Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
62 This Psalm partly containeth meditation, whereby David encourageth himself to trust in God against the assaults of temptations. And because our minds are easily drawn from God by the allurements of the world, he sharply reproveth this vanity, to the intent he might cleave fast to the Lord.
To the excellent Musician (A)Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
1 Yet [a]my soul keepeth silence unto God; of him cometh my salvation.
2 [b]Yet he is my strength and my salvation, and my defense; therefore I shall not much be moved.
3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a [c]man? ye shall be all slain; ye shall be as a bowed wall, or as a [d]wall shaken.
4 Yet they consult to cast him down from his dignity; their delight is in lies: they bless with their mouths, but curse with their hearts. Selah.
5 [e]Yet my soul, keep thou silence unto God: for mine hope is in him.
6 Yet is he my strength and my salvation, and my defense: therefore I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my [f]glory, the rock of my strength; in God is my trust.
8 Trust in him always, ye people; [g]pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.
9 Yet the children of men are vanity, the chief men are liars: to lay them upon a balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
10 Trust not in oppression nor in robbery: [h]be not vain: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
11 God spake [i]once or twice, I have heard it, that power belongeth unto God,
12 And to thee, O Lord, mercy: for thou [j]rewardest everyone according to his work.
9 O Israel, thou hast [a]sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they [b]stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not [c]touch them.
10 It is my desire [d]that I should chastise them, and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall gather themselves in their two [e]furrows.
11 And Ephraim is as a heifer used to delight in [f]threshing: but I will pass by her [g]fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride: Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness: reap after the measure of mercy: [h]break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
13 But you have plowed wickedness: ye have reaped iniquity: you have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thine own ways, and in the multitude of thy strong men,
14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy munitions shall be destroyed, as [i]Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle: the mother with the children was dashed in pieces.
15 So shall Bethel do unto you, because of your malicious wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel be destroyed.
5 1 He threateneth the rich with God’s severe judgment, for their pride, 7 that the poor hearing the miserable end of the rich, 8 may patiently bear afflictions, 11 as Job did, 14 even in their distresses.
1 Go [a]to now, ye rich men: weep, and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as it were fire. Ye have heaped up treasure for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the laborers, which have reaped your fields (which is of you kept back by fraud) crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the [b]ears of the Lord of hosts.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonness. Ye have [c]nourished your hearts, as in a [d]day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned, and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.
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