Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹²¹ [Ain.] I have done judgment and righteousness, Leave me not to mine oppressors.

¹²² Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.

¹²³ Mine eyes have been consumed for Thy salvation. And for the saying of Thy righteousness.

¹²⁴ Do with Thy servant according to Thy kindness. And Thy statutes teach Thou me.

¹²⁵ Thy servant [am] I -- cause me to understand, And I know Thy testimonies.

¹²⁶ Time for Jehovah to work! they have made void Thy law.

¹²⁷ Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold -- even fine gold.

¹²⁸ Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!

²⁹ And God giveth wisdom to Solomon, and understanding, very much, and breadth of heart, as the sand that [is] on the edge of the sea;

³⁰ and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt;

³¹ and he is wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol, and his name is in all the nations round about.

³² And he speaketh three thousand similes, and his songs [are] five, and the chief one;

³³ and he speaketh concerning the trees, from the cedar that [is] in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaketh concerning the cattle, and concerning the fowl, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes,

³⁴ and there come out of all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth who have heard of his wisdom.

¹⁰ As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

¹¹ put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

¹² because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

¹³ because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

¹⁵ and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;

¹⁶ above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

¹⁷ and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --