Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

17 Hear what is right, O LORD. Consider my cry. Hear my prayer of unfeigned lips.

² Let my sentence come forth from Your presence. And let Your eyes behold equity.

³ You have tested and visited my heart in the night. You have tried me and found nothing. For I have purposed that my mouth should not offend.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the words of Your lips I kept myself from the paths of the cruel man.

⁵ Keep my steps in Your paths, so that my feet do not slide.

⁶ I have called upon You. Surely You will hear me, O God. Incline Your ear to me and hear my words.

⁷ Show Your marvelous mercies, You Who are the Savior of those who trust in You from such as resist Your right hand.

¹⁵ But I will behold Your face in righteousness. And when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image. To him who excels: A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. Who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies (and from the hand of Saul) and said,

14 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and cause them to rest in their own land. And the stranger shall join himself to them. And they shall cling to the House of Jacob.

² And the people shall receive them and bring them to their own place. And the House of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD, for servants and handmaids. And they shall take them prisoners, whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.

¹⁰ But, I also rejoice greatly in the Lord that now at last your care for me springs afresh. Though you did care before, you lacked opportunity.

¹¹ I do not speak because of need. For I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.

¹² Also, I know how to be brought low and I know how to abound. Everywhere, and in all things, I have learned the secret of being full and of being hungry; of abounding and of having need.

¹³ I have strength for all things through Christ Who empowers me.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.

¹⁵ And you, Philippians, also know that in the beginning of the Gospel (when I departed from Macedonia) no church partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you.