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.

² Hear, O heavens, and listen, O Earth! For the LORD has said, “I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against Me.

³ “The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib. Israel has not known. My people have not understood.”

⁴ Ah, sinful nation! A people laden with iniquity! A seed of the wicked! Corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger. They have gone backward.

⁵ Why should you be stricken anymore? For you fall away more and more. The whole head is sick and the whole heart is heavy.

⁶ From the sole of the foot to the head, there is nothing whole therein. Wounds and swelling and sores full of corruption, they have not been wrapped or bound up or softened with oil.

⁷ Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and devastate it, as is the overthrow of strangers.

⁸ And the Daughter of Zion shall remain like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

⁹ Except the LORD of Hosts had reserved to us even a small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, would have been like Gomorrah.

²¹ How has the faithful city become a harlot? It was full of judgment. Justice lodged therein—but now, murderers.

²² Your silver has become dross. Your wine is mixed with water.

²³ Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves gifts and follows after rewards. They do not govern the fatherless. Nor does the widow’s cause come before them.

¹⁹ “Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the Earth, where the moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal.

²⁰ “But lay up treasures for yourselves in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves neither dig through nor steal.

²¹ “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

²² “The light of the body is the eye. If then your eye is sound, your whole body shall be light.

²³ “But if your eye is wicked, then all your body shall be dark. So, if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?

²⁴ “No man can serve two masters. For either he shall hate the one, and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.