Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ The LORD reigns; the peoples shall tremble; he who sits above the cherubim reigns; the earth shall be moved.

² The LORD is great in Zion, and he is high above all the peoples.

³ Let them praise thy great and terrible name, for it is holy.

⁴ The king’s strength is that he loves judgment; thou dost establish equity; thou dost execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

⁵ Exalt ye the LORD our God and worship at the footstool of his feet, which is holy.

⁶ ¶ Moses and Aaron are among his priests and Samuel among those that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

⁷ He spoke unto them in the pillar of fire; they kept his testimonies and the order that he gave them.

⁸ Thou didst answer them, O LORD our God; thou wast a God that didst forgive them, and an avenger for their works.

⁹ Exalt the LORD our God and worship at the mountain of his holiness, for the LORD our God is holy.

¹¹ ¶ And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child ministered unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

¹² But the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they did not know the LORD.

¹³ It was the priests’ custom with the people that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the flesh was being boiled, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

¹⁴ and he would strike it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot, and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest took for himself. Thus would they do in Shiloh to all the Israelites that went there.

¹⁵ Likewise, before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not take cooked flesh of thee, but raw.

¹⁶ And if the man would say unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat today and then take as much as thy soul desires, then he would answer him, No, but thou shalt give it to me now, and if not, I will take it by force.

¹⁷ Therefore, the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for men despised the present of the LORD.

¹⁹ Thou wilt say then unto me, Why does he become angry? For who shall resist his will?

²⁰ Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

²¹ Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

²² What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much meekness the vessels of wrath, prepared for death,

²³ and making known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory?

²⁴ Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles!

²⁵ ¶ As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

²⁶ And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.

²⁷ Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved;

²⁸ when the consumption comes to an end, righteousness shall overflow, because a short sentence will the Lord execute upon the earth.

²⁹ And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of the hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom and been made like unto Gomorrha.