Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^3 (F)Your people shall be volunteers
In the day of Your power;
^(G)In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning,
You have the dew of Your youth.
⁴ The Lord has sworn
And ^(H)will not relent,
“You are a ^(I)priest forever
According to the order of ^(J)Melchizedek.”

⁵ The Lord is ^(K)at Your right hand;
He shall ^[a]execute kings ^(L)in the day of His wrath.
⁶ He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
^(M)He shall ^[b]execute the heads of many countries.
⁷ He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;
^(N)Therefore He shall lift up the head.

² The ^(B)rich and the poor have this in common,
The ^(C)Lord is the maker of them all.

³ A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself,
But the simple pass on and are ^(D)punished.

⁴ By humility and the fear of the Lord
Are riches and honor and life.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards his soul will be far from them.

^6 (E)Train up a child in the way he should go,
^[a]And when he is old he will not depart from it.

⁷ The ^(F)rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸ He who sows iniquity will reap ^(G)sorrow,^[b]
And the rod of his anger will fail.

^9 (H)He who has a ^[c]generous eye will be ^(I)blessed,
For he gives of his bread to the poor.