Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Unjust Judgments Rebuked.
A Psalm of Asaph.
82 God takes His (A)stand in [a]His own congregation;
He (B)judges in the midst of the [b](C)rulers.
2 How long will you (D)judge unjustly
And (E)show partiality to the wicked? [c]Selah.
3 (F)Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
4 (G)Rescue the weak and needy;
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They (H)do not know nor do they understand;
They (I)walk about in darkness;
All the (J)foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 [d]I (K)said, “You are gods,
And all of you are (L)sons of the Most High.
7 “Nevertheless (M)you will die like men
And fall like any (N)one of the princes.”
8 (O)Arise, O God, (P)judge the earth!
For it is You who (Q)possesses all the nations.
4 Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of (A)Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they (B)rejected the law of the Lord
And have not kept His statutes;
Their [a](C)lies also have led them astray,
Those after which their (D)fathers walked.
5 “So I will (E)send fire upon Judah
And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
6 Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of (F)Israel and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they (G)sell the righteous for money
And the needy for a pair of sandals.
7 “These who [b]pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the (H)helpless
Also (I)turn aside the way of the humble;
And a (J)man and his father [c]resort to the same [d]girl
In order to profane My holy name.
8 “On garments (K)taken as pledges they stretch out beside (L)every altar,
And in the house of their God they (M)drink the wine of those who have been fined.
9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the (N)Amorite before them,
[e]Though his (O)height was like the height of cedars
And he was strong as the oaks;
I even destroyed his (P)fruit above and his root below.
10 “It was I who (Q)brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And I led you in the wilderness (R)forty years
[f]That you might take possession of the land of the (S)Amorite.
11 “Then I (T)raised up some of your sons to be prophets
And some of your young men to be (U)Nazirites.
Is this not so, O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.
9 “The patriarchs (A)became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him, 10 and rescued him from all his afflictions, and (B)granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.
11 “Now (C)a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers [a]could find no food. 12 But (D)when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time. 13 On the second visit (E)Joseph [b]made himself known to his brothers, and (F)Joseph’s family was disclosed to Pharaoh. 14 Then (G)Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, (H)seventy-five [c](I)persons in all. 15 And (J)Jacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died. 16 From there they were removed to [d](K)Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of [e]Hamor in [f]Shechem.
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