Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Shoshannim (lilies), A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

² I sink in deep mire where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

³ I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

¹³ ¶ But I corrected my prayer unto thee, O LORD, in the time of thy good pleasure; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy saving health.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let not the violent force of the waters overcome me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD, for thy mercy is perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion

³⁰ ¶ I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with praises.

³¹ This also shall please the LORD better than the sacrifice of an ox or bullock that struggles with horns and hoofs.

³² The humble shall see this and be glad; seek God and thy heart shall live.

³³ For the LORD hears the destitute and does not despise his prisoners.

³⁴ Let the heavens and the earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves in them.

³⁵ For God will protect Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah; they shall dwell there and inherit it.

³⁶ The seed of his slaves shall inherit it, and those that love his name shall dwell therein.

¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

¹⁸ And unto Enoch was born Irad, and Irad begat Mehujael, and Mehujael begat Methusael, and Methusael begat Lamech.

¹⁹ ¶ And Lamech took unto him two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

²⁰ And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and of those who have cattle.

²¹ And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the harp and organ.

²² And Zillah also bore Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron; and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

²³ ¶ And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech, for I shall slay a man for my wound and a young man for my hurt;

²⁴ if Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy times seven.

²⁵ ¶ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth; for God, said she, has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

²⁶ And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

5 ¶ This is the book of the descendants of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;

² male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Man, in the day when they were created.

³ And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth:

⁴ And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters;

⁵ and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

⁹ What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin;

¹⁰ as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one;

¹¹ there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God.

¹² They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,

¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

¹⁵ their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶ destruction and misery are in their ways,

¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known;

¹⁸ there is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹ ¶ Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.

²⁰ For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹ But now, without the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets:

²² the righteousness, that is, of God by the faith of Jesus, the Christ, for all and upon all those that believe in him, for there is no difference;