Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

⁶ Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:

⁷ Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;

⁸ The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹ Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

1 And these are the names of the sons of Israel who had come into Egypt; with Jacob had they come, each with his household:

² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

⁴ Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

⁵ And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt.

⁶ And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

⁷ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and swarmed and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was full of them.

2 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things.

³ And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and practisest them [thyself], that *thou* shalt escape the judgment of God?

⁴ or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God,

⁶ who shall render to each according to his works:

⁷ to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

⁸ But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [there shall be] wrath and indignation,

⁹ tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

¹⁰ but glory and honour and peace to every one that works good, both to Jew first and to Greek:

¹¹ for there is no acceptance of persons with God.