Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

33 Exult, ye righteous, in Jehovah: praise is comely for the upright.

² Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto him with the ten-stringed lute.

³ Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud sound.

⁴ For the word of Jehovah is right, and all his work is in faithfulness.

⁵ He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the loving-kindness of Jehovah.

⁶ By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

⁷ He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; he layeth up the deeps in storehouses.

⁸ Let all the earth fear Jehovah; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

⁹ For *he* spoke, and it was [done]; *he* commanded, and it stood fast.

¹⁰ Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect.

¹¹ The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance!

13 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south.

² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

³ And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai;

⁴ to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

⁵ And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together.

⁷ And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.

⁹ Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and if to the right, then I will take the left.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.

¹¹ And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:

¹² Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom.

¹³ And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

¹⁵ for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

¹⁶ And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.

¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.

¹⁸ Then Abram moved [his] tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.

¹⁷ These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].

¹⁸ For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

²⁰ For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known [it] to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

²² But that [word] of the true proverb has happened to them: [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed sow to [her] rolling in mud.