Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
68 God will arise. His enemies shall be scattered. Also, those who hate Him shall flee before Him.
2 As the smoke vanishes, so shall You drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3 But the righteous shall be glad and rejoice before God. Indeed, they shall leap for joy.
4 Sing to God! Sing praises to His Name! Exalt Him Who rides upon the heavens (by his Name, YAH) and rejoice before him!
5 He is a Father of the fatherless and a Judge of the widows: God in His Holy Habitation.
6 God makes the solitary dwell in families and delivers those who were held captive. But the rebellious shall dwell in a parched land.
7 O God, when You went forth before Your people, when You went through the wilderness (Selah),
8 the Earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of this God. Sinai was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, sent a gracious rain upon Your inheritance; and You refreshed it when it was weary.
10 Your Congregation dwelled therein. You, O God, have, by Your goodness, prepared it for the poor.
19 Praised be the LORD, the God of our salvation, Who daily bears our burden. Selah.
20 This is our God, the God Who saves; and to the LORD God belongs the escapes from death.
22 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
2 “May a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?
3 “Is it anything to the Almighty if you are righteous? Or is it profitable if you make your ways upright?
4 “Is it because of your fear that He rebukes you, or goes with you into judgment?
5 “Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities innumerable?
6 “For you have taken the pledge from your brother for nothing, and spoiled the clothes of the naked.
7 “To such as were weary, you have not given water to drink. And you have withdrawn bread from the hungry.
8 “But the mighty man had the Earth. And he who was in authority dwelt in it.
9 “You have cast out widows empty, and the arms of the fatherless were broken.
10 “Therefore snares are all around you, and fear shall suddenly trouble you,
11 “or darkness, so that you should not see. And abundance of waters shall cover you.
12 “Is not God on high in the heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are.
13 “But you say, ‘How should God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
14 ‘The clouds hide Him so that He cannot see, and He walks in the circle of Heaven.’
15 “Have you marked the way of the world, wherein wicked men have walked?
16 “Who were cut down before their time? Whose foundation was as a river that overflowed?
17 “Who said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and asked what the Almighty could do for them?
18 “Yet He filled their houses with good things. But let the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
19 “The righteous shall see them and shall rejoice and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
20 “Surely our substance is hidden. But the fire has devoured the remnant of them.
2 Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took with me Titus also.
2 And I went up by revelation and declared to them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles (but privately to those who were the chief, lest by any means I should run - or had run - in vain).
3 But not even Titus - who was with me, though he were a Grecian - was compelled to be circumcised,
4 This was because of the false brethren who were craftily sent in; and crept in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into bondage.
5 But we gave them no place, not even for an hour, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.
6 But by those who seemed to be great, I was not taught (whatever they were in time past, I am nothing the better; God accepts no man’s person) For those who are the chief have added nothing to me above what I had.
7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the Gospel was committed to me over the uncircumcision, as the Gospel over the circumcision was to Peter:
8 (For he who was mighty by Peter in the Apostleship over the circumcision, was also mighty by me toward the Gentiles.)
9 And when James and Cephas and John knew of the grace that was given to me - who are counted as pillars - they gave to me and to Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should preach to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision,
10 warning only that we should remember the poor (which I was also diligent to do).
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