Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

38 Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.

⁴ For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.

⁷ For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.

⁹ Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.

¹⁰ My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.

¹¹ My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹² And they that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

¹³ But I, as a deaf [man], hear not; and am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁴ Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵ For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: *thou* wilt answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶ For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me.

¹⁷ For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

¹⁸ For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.

¹⁹ But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:

²⁰ And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.

²¹ Forsake me not, Jehovah; O my God, be not far from me.

²² Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.

4 But it shall come to pass in the end of days [that] the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and the peoples shall flow unto it.

² And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah's word from Jerusalem.

³ And he shall judge among many peoples, and reprove strong nations, even afar off; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

⁴ And they shall sit every one under his vine, and under his fig-tree; and there shall be none to make [them] afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken [it].

⁵ For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his god; but we will walk in the name of Jehovah, our God for ever and ever.

⁶ In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

⁷ and I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation; and Jehovah shall reign over them in mount Zion, from henceforth even for ever.

1 Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.

² Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all encouragement;

⁴ who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

⁵ Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

⁶ But whether we are in tribulation, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the same sufferings which *we* also suffer,

⁷ (and our hope for you [is] sure;) or whether we are encouraged, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

⁸ For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened [to us] in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond [our] power, so as to despair even of living.

⁹ But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

¹⁰ who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

¹¹ ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.