Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

72 Give Your judgments to the King, O God, and Your righteousness to the King’s Son.

² He shall judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with equity.

³ The mountains and the hills shall bring peace to the people by justice.

⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall subdue the oppressor.

⁵ They shall fear You as long as the Sun and Moon endure, from generation to generation.

⁶ He shall come down like the rain upon the mown grass, as the showers that water the Earth.

⁷ In His days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moon endures.

⁸ Also, His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the land.

⁹ Those who dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before Him; and His enemies shall lick the dust.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish, and of the isles, shall bring presents. The kings of Sheba, and Seba, shall bring gifts.

¹¹ Indeed, all kings shall worship Him. All nations shall serve Him.

¹² For He shall deliver the poor when He cries, the needy also, and he who has no helper.

¹³ He shall be merciful to the poor and needy and shall preserve the souls of the poor.

¹⁴ He shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence, and their blood shall be dear in His sight.

¹⁵ Indeed, He shall live; and to Him shall they give of the gold of Sheba. Also, they shall pray for Him continually and daily bless Him.

¹⁶ A handful of grain shall be sown in the Earth, in the top of the mountains. The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and the children out of the city shall flourish like the grass of the Earth.

¹⁷ His name shall be forever. His name shall endure as long as the Sun. All nations shall bless Him and be blessed in Him.

¹⁸ Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who only does wondrous things.

¹⁹ And blessed be His glorious Name forever. And let all the Earth be filled with His Glory. So be it, even so be it.

²⁰ Here ends the prayers of David, the son of Jesse. A Psalm committed to Asaph

¹⁴ Also, the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,

¹⁵ in addition to that of merchant men and of the merchandises of those who sold spices, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the princes of the country.

¹⁶ And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold per shield:

¹⁷ And three hundred bucklers of beaten gold, three pounds of gold went to one buckler. And the king put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁸ Then the king made a great throne of ivory and covered it with the best gold.

¹⁹ And the throne had six steps. And the top of the throne was round behind. And there were stays on either side, on the place of the throne, and two lions standing by the stays.

²⁰ And there stood twelve lions on the six steps on either side. There was nothing like it made in any kingdom.

²¹ And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold. And all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were silver. For it was nothing esteemed in the days of Solomon.

²² For the king had the navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram on the sea. The navy of Tarshish came every three years and brought gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

²³ So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the Earth, both in riches and in wisdom.

²⁴ And all the world sought to see Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

²⁵ And every man brought his present: vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment and armor and sweet odors, horses and mules, from year to year.

⁷ But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

¹¹ He, indeed, gave some to be Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers,

¹² for the preparing of the Saints, for the work of the ministry, and for the edification of the body of Christ

¹³ until we all reach the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature belonging to the fullness of Christ.

¹⁴ So that we are henceforth children no more, wavering and carried about with every wind of doctrine and by the deceit of men, who with craftiness lay in wait to deceive.

¹⁵ But let us speak the truth in love. And in all things grow up into Him Who is the Head, Christ,

¹⁶ by Whom all the body, being coupled and knit together by the supply of every joint, according to the measure of each individual part, makes increase to the body, to the edifying of itself in love.