Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

² The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

³ Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauty of holiness; as the dew which falls from the womb of the morning, thus shall those who are thine be born unto thee.

⁴ The LORD has sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

⁵ ¶ The Lord at thy right hand shall smite the kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶ He shall judge among the Gentiles; he shall fill their places with dead bodies; he shall wound the head over much of the earth.

⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore he shall lift up his head.

²⁰ ¶ Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:

²¹ She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words, saying,

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?

²³ Return at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

²⁴ Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;

²⁵ for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof:

²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;

²⁷ when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.

²⁸ Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

³⁰ They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

³¹ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel.

³² For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

³³ But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely and shall rest from the fear of evil.

4 ¶ Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? Is it not from here, that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

² Ye covet and have not; ye murder, and have envy and cannot obtain; ye fight and war and have not that which ye desire because ye ask not.

³ Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures.

⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

⁵ Do ye think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?

⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

⁷ Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

⁹ Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.