Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

75 Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the Assyrians.

² In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.

³ And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion:

⁴ There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battie.

⁵ Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.

⁶ All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

⁷ At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

⁸ Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

⁹ Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still,

¹⁰ When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.

¹¹ For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

¹² Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible,

¹³ Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

¹⁵ And the sons of the prophets at Jericho, who were over against him, seeing it said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground,

¹⁶ And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest perhaps the spirit of the Lord hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley. And he said: Do not send.

¹⁷ But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they sent fifty men: and they sought three days but found him not.

¹⁸ And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said to them: Did I not say to you: Do not send?

¹⁹ And the men of the city said to Eliseus: Behold the situation of this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very bad, and the ground barren.

²⁰ And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,

²¹ He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there shall be no more in them death or barrenness.

²² And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Eliseus, which he spoke.

⁷ Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard.

⁸ Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true both in him and in you; because the darkness is passed, and the true light now shineth.

⁹ He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

¹⁰ He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no scandal in him.

¹¹ But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth; because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.