Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

128 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in His ways.

² When you eat the labors of your hands, you shall be blessed; and it shall be well with you.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

⁴ Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

⁵ The LORD out of Zion shall bless you; and you shall see the wealth of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ Indeed, you shall see your children’s children. Peace upon Israel. A song of degrees

⁹ Two are better than one. They have a good reward for their labor.

¹⁰ For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone. For he falls, and there is not a second to lift him up.

¹¹ Also if two sleep together, then they shall have heat. But how would there be heat for one?

¹² And though one is overcome, two shall stand. And a threefold cord is not easily broken.

¹³ Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will no longer be admonished.

¹⁴ For he comes forth to reign from prison, though he was born poor in his kingdom.

¹⁵ I beheld all the living who walk under the Sun with the second child, who shall stand up in his place.

¹⁶ There is no end of all the people who were before them. And those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this is also vanity and grasping at the wind.

5 Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

² Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth-eaten.

³ Your gold and silver are corroded. And the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped up treasure for the last days.

⁴ Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your fields cry out (those which are fraudulently withheld by you). And the cries of those reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

⁵ You have lived in pleasure on the Earth and been riotous. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

⁶ You have condemned and have killed the just. And he has not resisted you.