Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

28 To You, O LORD, do I cry. O my strength, do not be deaf toward me; lest if You do not answer me, I be like those who go down into the pit.

² Hear the voice of my petitions when I cry to You, when I hold up my hands toward Your Holy Oracle.

³ Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak friendly to their neighbors when malice is in their hearts.

⁴ Reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Recompense them for the work of their hands. Render them their reward.

⁵ For they do not reward the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands. Break them down and do not build them up.

⁶ Praised be the LORD, for He has heard the voice of my petitions.

⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in Him, and I was helped. Therefore, my heart shall rejoice; and with my song I will praise Him.

⁸ The LORD is their strength; and He is the strength of the deliverances of His anointed.

⁹ Save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Feed them, also, and exalt them forever. A Psalm of David.

¹⁵ Then Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

¹⁶ “Let the LORD, God of the spirits, of all flesh, appoint a man over the Congregation,

¹⁷ “who may go out and in before them and lead them out and in, so that the Congregation of the LORD are not as sheep who have no shepherd.”

¹⁸ And the LORD said to Moses, “Take with you Joshua, the son of Nun, in whom is the Spirit. And put your hands upon him.

¹⁹ “And set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation. And give him a commission in their sight.

²⁰ “And give him some of your glory, so that all the Congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

²¹ “And he shall stand before Eleazar the Priest, who shall ask counsel for him by the judgment of Urim, before the LORD. At his word they shall go out. And at his word they shall come in, he and all the children of Israel with him, and all the Congregation.”

²² So Moses did as the LORD had commanded him. And he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation.

²³ Then he put his hands upon him and gave him a commission, as the LORD had spoken by the hand of Moses.

⁸ Remember that Jesus Christ - of the seed of David - was raised again from the dead according to my Gospel,

⁹ in which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even unto bonds. But the Word of God is not bound.

¹⁰ Therefore, I suffer all things for the elect’s sake, so that they might also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal Glory.

¹¹ This is a true saying: “For if we are dead together with Him, we also shall live together with Him.

¹² “If we suffer, we shall also reign together with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.

¹³ “If we do not believe, He still remains faithful. He cannot deny Himself.”