Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
146 (A)Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2 I will praise the Lord (B)as long as I live;
(C)I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3 (D)Put not your trust in princes,
(E)in a son of man, in whom there is (F)no salvation.
4 When (G)his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.
5 (H)Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose (I)hope is in the Lord his God,
6 (J)who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them,
(K)who keeps faith for ever;
7 (L)who executes justice for the oppressed,
(M)who gives food to the hungry.
(N)The Lord sets the prisoners free;
8 (O)the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
(P)The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
(Q)the Lord loves the righteous.
9 (R)The Lord watches over the sojourners;
(S)he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but (T)the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
10 (U)The Lord will reign for ever,
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
(V)Praise the Lord!
2 (A)The rich and the poor meet together;
the Lord is (B)the maker of them all.
3 (C)The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
but the simple go on and suffer for it.
4 The reward for humility and fear of the Lord
is (D)riches and honour and life.[a]
5 (E)Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;
whoever (F)guards his soul will keep far from them.
6 (G)Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
7 (H)The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
8 Whoever (I)sows injustice will reap calamity,
and (J)the rod of his fury will fail.
9 (K)Whoever has a bountiful[b] eye will be blessed,
for he (L)shares his bread with the poor.
10 (M)Drive out a scoffer, (N)and strife will go out,
and (O)quarrelling and abuse will cease.
11 He who (P)loves purity of heart,
and whose (Q)speech is gracious, (R)will have the king as his friend.
12 The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,
but he (S)overthrows the words of the traitor.
13 (T)The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!”
14 The mouth of (U)forbidden[c] women is (V)a deep pit;
(W)he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but (X)the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
or gives to the rich, (Y)will only come to poverty.
8 (A)I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that (B)though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. 10 And in this matter (C)I give my judgement: (D)this benefits you, who (E)a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. 11 So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable (F)according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. 13 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness 14 your abundance at the present time should supply (G)their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. 15 As it is written, (H)“Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”
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