Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm. Of Asaph.

50 God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.

³ Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

⁴ He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵ Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

⁷ Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.

⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

⁹ I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:

¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;

¹¹ I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

¹³ Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

¹⁶ But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

¹⁷ Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

¹⁸ When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;

¹⁹ Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

²⁰ Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

²¹ These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

²³ Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.

13 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and there was found written in it that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

² because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing.

³ And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

²³ In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.

²⁴ And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

²⁵ And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair, and adjured them by God [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.

²⁷ And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?

²⁸ And [one] of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; and I chased him from me.

²⁹ Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites!

³⁰ And I purified them from all foreigners, and appointed the charges of the priests and the Levites, every one in his service;

³¹ and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good!

⁹ I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

¹⁰ not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since [then] ye should go out of the world.

¹¹ But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him]; with such a one not even to eat.

¹² For what have *I* [to do] with judging those outside also? *ye*, do not ye judge them that are within?

¹³ But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.