Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song of degrees. Of David.

131 Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in great matters, and in things too wonderful for me.

² Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a weaned child with its mother: my soul within me is as a weaned child.

³ Let Israel hope in Jehovah, from henceforth and for evermore.

²² Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; but they that deal truly are his delight.

²³ A prudent man concealeth knowledge; but the heart of the foolish proclaimeth folly.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful [hand] shall be under tribute.

²⁵ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.

²⁶ The righteous guideth his neighbour; but the way of the wicked misleadeth them.

²⁷ The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.

²⁸ In the path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

¹⁹ But I hope in [the] Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that *I* also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

²⁰ For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

²¹ For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

²² But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

²³ Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

²⁴ but I trust in [the] Lord that I myself also shall soon come;