Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm for Solomon.

¹ ¶ Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

² ¶ He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.

³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hills by righteousness.

⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people; he shall save the children of the destitute and shall break in pieces the violent.

⁵ They shall fear thee along with the sun and before the moon throughout all generations.

⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass as the dew that waters the earth.

⁷ In his days shall righteousness flourish and abundance of peace until there is no longer any moon.

⁸ He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

⁹ Those that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹¹ Yea, all kings shall fall down before him; all Gentiles shall serve him.

¹² For he shall deliver the destitute when he cries and the poor that has no helper.

¹³ He shall have mercy on the poor and destitute and shall save the souls of the poor in spirit.

¹⁴ He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

¹⁵ And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba; prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily he shall be given blessings.

¹⁶ There shall be planted a handful of grain in the earth upon the tops of the mountains; its fruit shall thunder like Lebanon; and out of the city they shall blossom like the grass of the earth.

¹⁷ His name shall endure for ever; before the sun his name shall be disseminated, and all Gentiles shall be blessed in him; they shall call him blessed.

¹⁸ ¶ Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, the only one who does wondrous things

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

²⁰ The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

1 ¶ Now after the death of Moses, the slave of the LORD, it came to pass that the LORD spoke unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,

² Moses, my slave, is dead; now, therefore, arise, pass this Jordan, thou and all this people, unto the land which I give to the sons of Israel.

³ Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

⁴ From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your borders.

⁵ No one shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.

⁶ Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land as an inheritance, which I swore unto their fathers to give them.

⁷ Only be thou strong and very courageous that thou mayest keep and do according to all the law, which Moses my slave commanded thee; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left that thou may be prospered in all the things that thou doest.

⁸ This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou may keep and do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way to prosper, and then thou shalt understand everything.

⁹ See that I command thee to be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for I, the LORD thy God, am with thee wherever thou goest.

³² ¶ And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthae, of David also and Samuel and of the prophets,

³³ who by faith won kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

³⁴ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered from infirmities, were made valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of foreign enemies;

³⁵ women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;

³⁶ and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

³⁷ they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; poor, afflicted, mistreated,

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth.

³⁹ And these all, approved by testimony of faith, received not the promise,

⁴⁰ God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

12 ¶ Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, leaving behind all the weight of the sin which surrounds us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who having been offered joy, endured the cross,{Gr. stauros-stake} despising the shame and was seated at the right hand of the throne of God.