Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
77 My voice came to God when I cried. My voice came to God and He heard me.
2 On the day of my trouble, I sought the LORD. My hand did not cease in the night. My soul refused comfort.
3 I thought upon God and was troubled. I prayed, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah.
4 You keep my eyes awake. I was astonished and could not speak.
5 I considered the days of old, the years of ancient time.
6 I called to remembrance my song in the night. I communed with my own heart; and my spirit searched diligently.
7 Will the LORD be absent forever? And will He show no more favor?
8 Has His mercy ceased forever? Does His promise fail forevermore?
9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has He shut up His tender mercies in displeasure? Selah.
10 And I said, “This is my death.” Yet, I remembered the years of the right hand of the Most High.
11 I remembered the works of the LORD. Certainly, I remembered Your wonders of old.
12 I will also meditate on all Your works and talk of Your acts.
13 Your way, O God, is in the Sanctuary. Who is so great a God as our God!
14 You are the God Who does wonders. You have declared Your power among the people.
15 You have redeemed Your people with Your arm, even the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16 The waters saw You, O God. The waters saw You and were afraid. Indeed, the depths trembled.
17 The clouds poured out water. The heavens gave a sound. Indeed, Your arrows went all over.
18 The voice of Your thunder was all round. The lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.
19 Your way is in the sea, Your paths in the great waters; and Your footsteps are not known.
20 You led Your people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. A Psalm to give instruction, committed to Asaph
4 Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,
2 “If we try to commune with you, will you grow weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 “Behold, you have taught many, and have strengthened weary hands.
4 “Your words have upheld him who was falling. And you have strengthened weak knees.
5 “But now it has come upon you, and you grow weary. It touches you, and you are troubled.
6 “Is not this your fear, your confidence, your patience and uprightness of your ways?
7 “Please remember, whoever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?
8 “As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.
9 “With the blast of God they perish. And with the breath of His Nostrils are they consumed.
10 “The roaring of the Lion, and the voice of the Lioness, and the teeth of the Lion’s whelps are broken.
11 “The Lion perishes for lack of prey. And the Lion’s whelps are scattered.
12 “But a thing was brought to me secretly. And my ear has received a little of it.
13 “In the thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep falls on men,
14 “fear came upon me, and dread, which made all my bones tremble.
15 “And the wind passed before me, and made the hairs of my flesh stand up.
16 “Then, one stood. And I did not know his face, an image before my eyes. In silence, I heard a voice,
17 “‘Shall man be more just than God? Or shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 ‘Behold, he found no steadfastness in his servants, and laid folly upon his angels.
19 ‘How much more in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shall be destroyed before the moth?
20 ‘They are destroyed from the morning to the evening. They perish forever, without regard.
21 ‘Does not their excellence go away with them? Do they not die without wisdom?’”
2 And you were dead in trespasses and sins
2 (wherein you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the authority of the ruler of the air, even the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom all of us also once lived in the lusts of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the mind; and were, by nature, the children of wrath, just as the rest).
4 But God, Who is rich in mercy, through His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead by sins, has quickened us together in Christ (by grace you are saved)
6 and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus;
7 so that He might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of His grace through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are you saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift from God
9 (not of works, lest anyone should boast).
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works; which God has ordained, so that we would walk in them.
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