Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

50 The God of gods, The LORD, has spoken and called the Earth, from the rising up of the Sun to the going down thereof.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, has God shined.

³ Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall devour before Him, and a mighty storm shall be moved around Him.

⁴ He shall call the heaven above and the Earth, to judge His people.

⁵ “Gather My saints together to Me, those who make a covenant with Me with sacrifice.”

⁶ And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge Himself. Selah.

⁷ “Hear, O My people, and I will speak. Hear, O Israel, and I will testify to you. I am God. Your God.

⁸ “I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings continually before me.

²² “Oh, consider this, you who forget God; lest I tear you in pieces and there are none who can deliver you.

²³ “He who offers praise shall glorify Me. And to him who sets his way aright, I will show the salvation of God.” To him who excels: A Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone into Bathsheba.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as a fire. It devours the briers and the thorns, and will kindle in the thick places of the forest. And they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

¹⁹ By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts shall the land be darkened. And the people shall be as the meat of the fire. No man shall spare his brother.

²⁰ And he shall cut on the right hand and be hungry. And he shall eat on the left hand and shall not be satisfied. Everyone shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

²¹ Manasseh-Ephraim and Ephraim-Manasseh, they both shall be against Judah. For all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.

10 “Woe to those who decree wicked decrees and write grievous things,

² “to keep back the poor from judgment and to take away the judgment of the poor of My people. So that widows may be their prey and that they may spoil the fatherless.

³ “What will you do now, on the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help and where will you leave your glory?

⁴ “Without Me, everyone shall fall among those who are bound. And they shall fall down among the slain. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.

7 Then the High Priest said, “Are these things so?”

² And he said, “You men! Brothers and fathers! Listen! The God of Glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia (before he lived in Haran),

³ “and said to him, ‘Come out of our country, and from your kindred. And come into the land which I shall show you.’

⁴ “Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And after his father died, God brought him from there into this land wherein you now dwell.

⁵ “And He gave him no inheritance in it; no, not the breadth of a foot. Yet, He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

⁶ “But God said this: ‘that his seed would be a sojourner in a strange land. And that they would keep it in bondage and mistreat it four hundred years.

⁷ ‘But the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, I will judge,’ says God, ‘And after that, they shall come forth and serve Me in this place.’

⁸ “He also gave him the Covenant of Circumcision. And Abraham begat Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve Patriarchs.