Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

48 Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.

² Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

³ All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

⁴ My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

⁵ I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

⁶ Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.

⁷ They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,

⁸ No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

⁹ Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

¹⁰ And shall still live unto the end.

¹¹ He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

¹² And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

¹³ And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

¹⁴ This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

¹⁵ They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

¹⁶ But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

¹⁷ Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

¹⁸ For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

¹⁹ For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

²⁰ He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

²¹ Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

¹⁸ The Lord hath been zealous for his land, and hath spared his people.

¹⁹ And the Lord answered and said to his people: Behold I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled with them: and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

²⁰ And I will remove far off from you the northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea: and his stench shall ascend, and his rottenness shall go up, because he hath done proudly.

²¹ Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice: for the Lord hath done great things.

²² Fear not, ye beasts of the fields: for the beautiful places of the wilderness are sprung, for the tree hath brought forth its fruit, the fig tree, and the vine have yielded their strength.

²³ And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning.

²⁴ And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.

²⁵ And I will restore to you the ears which the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm have eaten; my great host which I sent upon you.

²⁶ And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled: and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God, who hath done wonders with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever.

²⁷ And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: and I am the Lord your God, and there is none besides: and my people shall not be confounded for ever.

²⁸ And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

²⁹ Moreover upon my servants and handmaids in those days I will pour forth my spirit.

2 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

² For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;

⁵ That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

⁶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought;

⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:

⁸ Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹ But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

¹⁰ But to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

¹¹ For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.