Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

91 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him will I trust.”

³ Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence.

⁴ He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust; His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day,

⁶ nor of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that layeth waste at noonday.

¹⁴ “Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.

¹⁵ He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.

¹⁶ With long life will I satisfy him, and show him My salvation.”

⁹ Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord and because of the words of His holiness.

¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers; for because of cursing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

¹¹ “For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in My house have I found their wickedness,” saith the Lord.

¹² “Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation,” saith the Lord.

¹³ “And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied in Baal and caused My people Israel to err.

¹⁴ I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all of them unto Me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.”

¹⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.”

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: “Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you. They make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

¹⁷ They say still unto them that despise Me, ‘The Lord hath said, “Ye shall have peace.”’ And they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’”

¹⁸ For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard His word? Who hath marked His word and heard it?

¹⁹ Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind; it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

²⁰ The anger of the Lord shall not return, until He has executed and till He has performed the thoughts of His heart; in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

²¹ “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

²² But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My words, then they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.

⁸ I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forthcoming of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.

¹⁰ And herein I give my advice, for this is expedient for you, who began earlier not only to do, but also to be in the forefront a year ago.

¹¹ Now therefore perform the doing of it, that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

¹² For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not.

¹³ For I do not mean that other men should be eased and ye burdened,

¹⁴ but that there be an equality: that now at this time your abundance may supply their want, that their abundance may also supply your want, that there may be equality.

¹⁵ As it is written: “He that had gathered much had nothing left over, and he that had gathered little had no lack.”