Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Praise to God for Providing Victory
For the music director. Of David. A psalm. A song.[a]
68 God will arise; his enemies will be scattered,
and those who hate him will flee from before him.
2 As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off.
As wax melts before fire,
the wicked will perish before God.
3 But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God,
and will rejoice with joy.
4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name.
Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds—his name is Yah—[b]
and rejoice before him.
5 A father to orphans and a judge for widows
is God in his holy habitation.
6 God settles the lonely in a home;
he brings prisoners out into prosperity.
But the rebellious abide in a barren land.
7 O God, when you went out before your people,
when you marched through the desert, Selah
8 the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain
at the presence of God who was at Sinai,
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You caused abundant rain to fall, O God.
When your inheritance was weary you revived it.
10 Your community dwelled in it.
You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God.
9 “They[a] snatch the orphan from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the needy.[b]
10 They[c] go about naked, without clothing,
and hungry, they carry the sheaves.[d]
11 Between their terraces they press out oil;
they tread the presses, but[e] they are thirsty.
12 From the city people groan,
and the throat[f] of the wounded cries for help;
yet[g] God does not regard it as unseemly.[h]
13 “Those are among the ones rebelling against the light;
they do not recognize his ways,
and they do not stay in his paths.
14 At dusk[i] the murderer rises;
he kills the needy and the poor,
and in the night he is like a[j] thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’[k]
and he places a covering on his face.
16 He digs through houses in the darkness;
by day they shut themselves in—
they do not know the light
17 because morning likewise is to them deep darkness;
indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.
18 “He himself[l] is swift on the water’s surface;
their portion is cursed in the land.
No one turns toward the path of their vineyards.[m]
19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters,
like Sheol snatches away those[n] who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets him.
The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered,
and wickedness is broken like a[o] tree.
21 He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child,
and does no good to the widow.
22 Yet[p] he[q] carries off the tyrants by his strength;
if he rises up, then[r] he[s] cannot be certain of life.[t]
23 He[u] gives security to him, and he is[v] supported,
but[w] his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted a little while, then[x] they are gone.[y]
And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others,
and like the heads of grain they wither away.
25 “And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar
and reduce my word to nothing?”
Paul Confronts Peter at Antioch
11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was condemned. 12 For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he[a] was afraid of those who were of the circumcision, 13 and the rest of the Jews also joined in this hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, “If you, although you[b] are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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