Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

107 A canticle of a psalm for David himself.

² My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.

³ Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.

⁴ I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the populations.

⁵ For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.

⁶ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth:

⁷ That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and hear me.

⁸ God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

⁹ Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection of my head. Juda is my king:

8 Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law.

² They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.

³ Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.

⁴ They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?

⁶ For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.

⁷ For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

⁸ Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.

⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

¹⁰ But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

¹¹ Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

¹² I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.

¹³ They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

¹⁴ And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

³³ O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

³⁵ Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

³⁶ For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.