Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my cry?

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

³ But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest in the midst of the praises of Israel.

⁴ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

⁵ They cried unto thee and were delivered: they trusted in thee and were not confounded.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people.

⁷ All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

⁸ Turn him over to the LORD, let him deliver him, let him save him, seeing he delighted in him.

⁹ But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou hast made me wait upon thee since I was upon my mother’s breasts.

¹⁰ I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

¹¹ ¶ Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is no one to help.

¹² Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round about.

¹³ They opened their mouth upon me as a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

18 ¶ Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,

² How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.

³ Why are we counted as beasts? Are we vile in your sight?

⁴ O thou that dost tear thy soul in thine anger; shall the earth be forsaken because of thee and shall the rocks be removed out of their place?

⁵ ¶ The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶ The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

⁷ The steps of his strength shall be cut down, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

⁸ For a net shall be cast at his feet, and he shall walk upon a network.

⁹ The snare shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

¹⁰ The cord is hidden in the ground and a trap for him in the way.

¹¹ ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and his own feet shall drive him away.

¹² His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

¹³ They shall devour the protection of his skin; the firstborn of death shall devour his members.

¹⁴ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

¹⁵ He shall dwell in his tent, as if it were not his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off.

¹⁷ His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the streets.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from the light into the darkness and chased out of the world.

¹⁹ He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any to succeed him in his dwellings.

²⁰ Those that come after him shall be dismayed at his day, as those that went before were overcome with fear.

²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that does not know God.

4 ¶ Let us, therefore, fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

² For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them, but it did not profit those that heard the word without mixing it with faith.

³ (For we who have believed do enter into the rest) as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

⁴ For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day like this, And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

⁵ And in this place again, They shall not enter into my rest.

⁶ Seeing, therefore, it remains that some must enter therein, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of disobedience;

⁷ Again, he determines a certain day, saying, Today, by David so long a time afterward; as it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day.

⁹ There remains therefore a rest {Gr. Sabbatismos} for the people of God.

¹⁰ For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

¹¹ ¶ Let us therefore make haste to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.