Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

142 I cried to the LORD with my voice! With my voice I prayed to the LORD.

² I poured out my meditation before Him, declared my affection in His presence.

³ Though my spirit was overwhelmed in me, You still knew my path. They have secretly laid a snare for me in the way wherein I walk.

⁴ I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who knew me. All refuge failed me. No one cared for my soul.

⁵ I cried to You, O LORD, and said, “You are my Hope, my portion in the land of the living.

⁶ “Listen to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

⁷ “Bring my soul out of prison, so that I may praise Your Name. The righteous shall surround me when You are beneficial to me.” A Psalm of David

¹² “Woe to him who builds a town with blood and erects a city by iniquity.

¹³ “Behold, is it not of the LORD of Hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire? The people shall weary themselves for frivolity.

¹⁴ “For the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵ “Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink and mixes it with your own skin to make him drunk, so that you may see their nakedness.

¹⁶ “You are filled with shame for glory. You drink also and are uncovered! The cup of the LORD’s right Hand shall be turned to you, and shameful spewing, for your glory.

¹⁷ “For the cruelty of Lebanon shall cover you, as shall the plunder of the beasts which made them afraid because of men’s blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city, and to all who dwell in them.

¹⁸ “What profit is the image? For the maker has made it an image, and a teacher of lies. Though, he who made it trusts in it when he makes dumb idols.

¹⁹ “Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake,’ and to the dumb stone, ‘Rise up! It shall teach you! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver. And there is no breath in it.

²⁰ “But the LORD is in His Holy Temple. Let all the Earth keep silence before Him.”

⁹ I wrote to you in the epistle that you should not associate with the sexually immoral,

¹⁰ (that is not to say with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the covetous, or with swindlers, or with idolaters. For then you must go out of the world).

¹¹ But now I have written to you that you do not associate if anyone who is called a “brother” is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a verbal abuser, or a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a one do not even eat.

¹² For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

¹³ But God judges those who are outside. Therefore, cast out the wicked from among yourselves.