Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon, Do not destroy, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

¹ ¶ Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks, for that thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.

² When I shall receive the congregation, I will judge uprightly.

³ The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I bore up the pillars of it. Selah.

⁴ I said unto the fools, Do not deal foolishly and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn:

⁵ Do not lift up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck.

⁶ ¶ For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert.

⁷ But God is the judge; he puts down one and sets up another.

⁸ For the cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof, shall wring out and swallow up all the wicked of the earth.

⁹ But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ And I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

41 ¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook or with the cord which thou lettest down on his tongue?

² Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

³ Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee?

⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee that thou shall take him for a slave for ever?

⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, or wilt thou tie him up for thy maidens?

⁶ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants?

⁷ Canst thou cut his skin with knives or his head with a fish spear?

⁸ Lay thine hand upon him; thou shalt remember the battle and do no more.

⁹ Behold, your hope regarding him shall fail; for even at the sight of him they shall faint.

¹⁰ No one is so bold as to dare stir him up; who then shall be able to stand before me?

¹¹ ¶ Who has preceded me, that I should repay him? All that is under the whole heaven is mine.

¹³ For when God promised unto Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

¹⁴ saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee and multiplying I will multiply thee.

¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

¹⁶ For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all controversy.

¹⁷ In which God, desiring to show more abundantly unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath,

¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

¹⁹ which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters even into that which is within the veil,

²⁰ where our precursor, Jesus, has entered for us and is made high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.