Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 72
A Prayer for the King
Of Solomon.(A)
1 God, give your justice to the king
and your righteousness to the king’s son.(B)
2 He will judge your people with righteousness
and your afflicted ones with justice.(C)
3 May the mountains bring well-being[a] to the people
and the hills, righteousness.(D)
4 May he vindicate the afflicted among the people,
help the poor,
and crush the oppressor.(E)
19 For people will live on Zion in Jerusalem. You will never weep again; he will show favor to you at the sound of your outcry; as soon as he hears, he will answer you. 20 The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression,(A) but your Teacher[a] will not hide any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher, 21 and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”(B) 22 Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
23 Then he will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.(C) 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel(D) and fork. 25 Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall. 26 The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter(E)—like the light of seven days—on the day(F) that the Lord bandages his people’s injuries and heals the wounds he inflicted.(G)
16 Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said, “Fellow Israelites, and you who fear God, listen!(A) 17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, made the people prosper during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty[a] arm.(B) 18 And for about forty years he put up with them[b] in the wilderness;(C) 19 and after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan,(D) he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 This all took about 450 years. After this, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.(E) 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.(F) 22 After removing him,(G) he raised up David as their king and testified about him, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my own heart,[c](H) who will carry out all my will.’
23 “From this man’s descendants, as he promised, God brought to Israel(I) the Savior, Jesus.[d] 24 Before his coming to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.(J) 25 Now as John was completing his mission, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the one. But one is coming after me, and I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet.’(K)
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