Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
18 I will love You dearly, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress; and He Who delivers me, my God and my strength. In Him will I trust. My shield. The horn, also, of my salvation. My refuge.
3 I will call upon the LORD, Who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be safe from my enemies.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the pureness of my hand, He recompensed me,
21 because I kept the ways of the LORD and did not do wickedly against my God.
22 For all His laws were before me. And I did not cast away His Commandments from me.
23 I was also upright with him and have kept myself from my wickedness.
24 Therefore, the LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the pureness of my hands in His sight.
25 With the godly, You will show Yourself godly. With the upright man, You will show Yourself upright.
26 With the pure, You will show Yourself pure. And with the froward, You will show Yourself froward.
27 Thus, You will save the poor people, and will cast down proud looks.
28 Surely, You will light my candle. The LORD, my God, will lighten my darkness.
29 For You I have broken through an army. And by my God I have leapt over a wall.
30 The way of God is incorrupt. The Word of the LORD is tried in the fire. He is a shield to those who trust in Him.
31 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is mighty except our God?
32 God girds me with strength and makes my way upright.
18 “You have forgotten the mighty God Who begat you, and have forgotten the God Who formed you.
19 “The LORD then saw it and was angry, because of the provocation of His sons and of His daughters.
20 “And He said, ‘I will hide My Face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faith.
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel. Nor is there understanding in them.
29 “Oh that they were wise, they would understand this! They would consider their latter end!
30 “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 “For their god is not as our God. Even our enemies are judges.
32 “For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.
33 “Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps.
34 ‘Is not this laid in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures?
35 ‘Vengeance and recompense are Mine. Their foot shall slide in due time. For the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them, make haste.
36 ‘For the LORD shall judge His people, and have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and that no one remains, bond or free.
37 ‘When men shall say, “Where are their gods, their mighty god, in whom they trusted,
38 “who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you. Let him be your refuge.”
39 ‘Behold now. For I, I am He. And there are no gods with Me. I kill and give life. I wound. And I make whole. Nor is there anyone who can deliver out of My hand.
33 O the depth of the riches of both the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who was His counselor?
35 Or who has given to Him first, that he shall be recompensed?
36 For of Him, and through Him, and for Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.
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