Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵ My soul, keep silent to God only (for my hope is from Him).

⁶ He alone is my strength and my salvation, my defense. I shall not be moved.

⁷ In God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength. In God is my trust.

⁸ Trust in Him always, you people. Pour out your hearts before Him, God our Hope. Selah.

⁹ Surely, men of low degree are a vapor, and the chief men liars. To lay them upon a scale, they are altogether lighter than a breath.

¹⁰ Do not trust in oppression or in robbery. Do not be vain. If riches increase, do not set your heart thereon.

¹¹ God has spoken once, twice I have heard it, that power belongs to God;

¹² and to You, O LORD, mercy. For You reward everyone according to his work. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah

¹⁴ Curse the day on which I was born and do not let the day on which my mother bore me be blessed!

¹⁵ Curse the man who showed my father, saying, “A male child is born to you,” and comforted him.

¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which the LORD has overturned without relent. And let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noon,

¹⁷ because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, or her womb a perpetual conception.

¹⁸ How is it that I came forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, so that my days should be consumed with shame?

¹³ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴ “Therefore it shall be easier for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than for you.

¹⁵ “And you, Capernaum, who is exalted to Heaven, shall be thrust down to Hades.

¹⁶ “The one who hears you, hears Me. And the one who despises you, despises Me. And the one who despises Me, despises Him Who sent Me.”