Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
80 1 A lamentable prayer to God to help the miseries of his Church, 8 Desiring him to consider their first estate, when his favor shined toward them, to the intent that he might finish that work which he had begun.
To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm committed to Asaph.
1 Hear, [a]O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like sheep: show thy brightness, thou that sittest between the [b]Cherubims.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come to help us.
8 Thou hast brought a [a]vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou madest room for it, and didst cause it to take root, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the [b]goodly cedars.
11 She stretched out her branches unto the Sea, and her boughs unto the [c]river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they, which pass by the way, have plucked her?
13 The wild [d]boar out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wild beasts of the field have eaten it up.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down [e]from heaven and behold, and visit this vine,
15 And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest [f]strong for thyself.
16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down: and they perish at the [g]rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Let thine hand be upon the [h]man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest strong for thine own self.
18 So will not we go back from thee, [i]revive thou us, and we shall call upon thy Name.
19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts: cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us [a]walk in the Law of the Lord.
6 Surely thou [b]hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are [c]full of the East manners, and are sorcerers as the Philistines, [d]and abound with strange children.
7 Their land also was full of [e]silver and gold, and there was none end of their treasures: and their land was full of horses, and their chariots were infinite.
8 Their land was also full of idols; they worshipped the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.
9 And a man bowed himself, and a man [f]humbled himself: therefore [g]spare them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust from before the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his Majesty.
11 The high look of man shall be humbled, and the loftiness of men shall be abased, and the Lord only shall be exalted in [h]that day.
26 (A)For if we sin [a]willingly after that we have received and acknowledged that truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a fearful looking for of judgment, and violent fire, which shall devour the [b]adversaries.
28 [c]He that despiseth Moses’ Law, dieth without mercy (B)under two, or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be worthy, which treadeth under foot the Son of God, and counteth the blood of the Testament as an unholy thing, wherewith he was sanctified, and doeth despite the Spirit of grace?
30 [d]For we know him that hath said, (C)Vengeance belongeth unto me: I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall [e]judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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