Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 52
God Judges the Proud
For the choir director. A Maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”(A)
1 Why boast about evil, you hero!(B)
God’s faithful love is constant.(C)
2 Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.(D)
3 You love evil instead of good,
lying instead of speaking truthfully.(E)Selah
4 You love any words that destroy,
you treacherous tongue!(F)
5 This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living.(G)Selah
6 The righteous will see and fear,
and they will derisively say about that hero,[a](H)
7 “Here is the man
who would not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”(I)
10 They hate the one who convicts the guilty(A)
at the city gate,
and they despise(B) the one who speaks with integrity.
11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor(C)
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone(D)
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.(E)
12 For I know your crimes are many
and your sins innumerable.
They oppress the righteous,(F) take a bribe,
and deprive the poor of justice(G) at the city gates.
13 Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent[a](H)
at such a time,
for the days are evil.
14 Pursue good and not evil
so that you may live,
and the Lord, the God of Armies,
will be with you
as you have claimed.(I)
15 Hate evil and love good;(J)
establish justice at the city gate.(K)
Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious(L)
to the remnant of Joseph.(M)
16 Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
Christ, a High Priest
5 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed in matters pertaining to God for the people, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he is also clothed with weakness.(A) 3 Because of this, he must make an offering for his own sins as well as for the people.(B) 4 No one takes this honor on himself; instead, a person is called by God, just as Aaron was.(C) 5 In the same way, Christ did not exalt himself to become a high priest, but God who said to him,
6 also says in another place,
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