Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 52
God Judges the Proud
For the choir director. A Maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”(A)
1 Why boast about evil, you hero!(B)
God’s faithful love is constant.(C)
2 Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.(D)
3 You love evil instead of good,
lying instead of speaking truthfully.(E)Selah
4 You love any words that destroy,
you treacherous tongue!(F)
5 This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living.(G)Selah
6 The righteous will see and fear,
and they will derisively say about that hero,[a](H)
7 “Here is the man
who would not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”(I)
11 “And to the house of the king of Judah say this: ‘Hear the word of the Lord! 12 House of David, this is what the Lord says:
Administer justice every morning,
and rescue the victim of robbery
from his oppressor,(A)
or my anger will flare up like fire
and burn unquenchably
because of your evil deeds.
13 Beware! I am against you,(B)
you who sit above the valley,
you atop the rocky plateau—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you who say, “Who can come down against us?(C)
Who can enter our hiding places?”
14 I will punish you according to what you have done(D)—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will kindle a fire in your forest(E)
that will consume everything around it.’”(F)
22 I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.(A) 24 The nations will walk by its light,(B) and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.[a](C) 25 Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there.(D) 26 They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.[b](E) 27 Nothing unclean will ever enter it,(F) nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.(G)
The Source of Life
22 Then he showed me the river[c] of the water of life,(H) clear as crystal,(I) flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb(J) 2 down the middle of the city’s main street. The tree of life was on each side of the river, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month.(K) The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations,(L) 3 and there will no longer be any curse.(M) The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him. 4 They will see his face,(N) and his name will be on their foreheads.(O) 5 Night will be no more;(P) people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light,(Q) and they will reign forever and ever.
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