Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

27 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

² Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.

³ Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

⁴ Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.

⁵ Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my supplication.

⁷ The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.

⁸ The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.

⁹ Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.

²⁶ I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.

²⁷ Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.

²⁸ My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.

²⁹ Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

³⁸ Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.

³⁹ For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.