Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

77 My voice came to God when I cried. My voice came to God and He heard me.

² On the day of my trouble, I sought the LORD. My hand did not cease in the night. My soul refused comfort.

¹¹ I remembered the works of the LORD. Certainly, I remembered Your wonders of old.

¹² I will also meditate on all Your works and talk of Your acts.

¹³ Your way, O God, is in the Sanctuary. Who is so great a God as our God!

¹⁴ You are the God Who does wonders. You have declared Your power among the people.

¹⁵ You have redeemed Your people with Your arm, even the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

¹⁶ The waters saw You, O God. The waters saw You and were afraid. Indeed, the depths trembled.

¹⁷ The clouds poured out water. The heavens gave a sound. Indeed, Your arrows went all over.

¹⁸ The voice of Your thunder was all round. The lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

¹⁹ Your way is in the sea, Your paths in the great waters; and Your footsteps are not known.

²⁰ You led Your people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. A Psalm to give instruction, committed to Asaph

²⁹ So, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth Gilead.

³⁰ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will change my apparel, and will enter into the battle. But you put on your apparel.” And the king of Israel changed himself and went into the battle.

³¹ And the king of Aram commanded his thirty-two captains over his chariots, saying, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only against the king of Israel!”

³² And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely it is the king of Israel!” And they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried.

³³ And when the captains of the chariots saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from him.

³⁴ Then a man drew a bow mightily and struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. Therefore, he said to his chariot man, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am hurt.”

³⁵ And the battle increased that day. And the king stood still in his chariot, against the Aramites, and died at evening. And the blood ran out of the wound, into the midst of the chariot.

³⁶ And there was a proclamation throughout the battle, around the going down of the Sun, saying, “Every man to his city. And every man to his own country.”

³⁷ So the king died and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.

³⁸ And someone washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria. And the dogs licked up his blood (and they washed his armor), according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke.

³⁹ Concerning the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

⁴⁰ So Ahab slept with his fathers. And Ahaziah, his son, reigned in his place.

⁵¹ Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, began to reign over Israel in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

⁵² But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.

⁵³ For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the LORD God of Israel to wrath, according to all that his father had done.

⁵ Test yourselves, whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Do you not know yourselves how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disqualified?

⁶ But I trust that you shall know that we are not disqualified.

⁷ Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should seem approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we may be disqualified.

⁸ For we cannot do anything against the truth, but for the truth.

⁹ For we are glad when we are weak, and you are strong. For this also we pray: even your perfecting.

¹⁰ Therefore, I write these things while being absent (so that when I am present, I should not use sharpness) according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to destruction.