Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

13 How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

³ Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;

⁴ Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! [lest] mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.

⁵ As for me, I have confided in thy loving-kindness; my heart shall be joyful in thy salvation.

⁶ I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath dealt bountifully with me.

⁵ And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, before the new court;

⁶ and he said, Jehovah, God of our fathers, art not thou God in the heavens, and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in thy hand there is power and might, and none can withstand thee.

⁷ Hast not thou, our God, dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and given it for ever to the seed of Abraham, thy friend?

⁸ And they have dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

⁹ If evil come upon us, sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, and we stand before this house and before thee—for thy name is in this house—and cry unto thee in our distress, then thou wilt hear and save.

¹⁰ And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab, and those of mount Seir, amongst whom thou wouldest not let Israel go when they came out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned from them, and destroyed them not,)

¹¹ behold, they reward us, in coming to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to possess.

¹² Our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might in presence of this great company which cometh against us, neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee.

⁷ Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

⁸ The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

⁹ A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

¹⁰ *I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

¹¹ But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

¹² I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion.