Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm or Song of David.

¹ ¶ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those that hate him flee before him.

² As smoke is driven away; so 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; they shall rejoice before God; they shall dance with joy.

⁴ Sing unto God, sing psalms unto his name; extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name JAH and rejoice before him.

⁵ A father of the fatherless and a defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.

⁶ God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

⁷ ¶ O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

⁸ The earth shook, the heavens also dropped their rain at the presence of God; even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

⁹ Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, by which thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

¹⁰ Thy presence was in thy congregation; thou, O God, by thy goodness thou hast provided for the poor.

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord, who daily lades us with benefits, even the God of our saving health. Selah.

²⁰ He that is our God is the God of salvation, and unto GOD the Lord belongs the way of escape from death.

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.

¹⁰ They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

¹¹ They press oil within their walls and tread their winepresses and suffer thirst.

¹² Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder them.

¹³ ¶ They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.

¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.

¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face.

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

¹⁷ For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death come over them.

¹⁸ ¶ They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.

¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol consume those who have sinned.

²⁰ The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.

²¹ He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.

²² He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.

²³ If he gave credit to some to take them over, his eyes were upon their ways.

²⁴ They were exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others and cut off as the tops of the heads of grain.

²⁵ And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?

¹¹ ¶ But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed.

¹² For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

¹³ And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, dost live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?