Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

29 A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David's house.

² I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.

³ O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and then hast healed me.

⁴ Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.

⁵ Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give praise to the memory of his holiness.

⁶ For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.

⁷ And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved.

⁸ O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.

⁹ To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.

¹⁰ What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

¹¹ The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my helper.

¹² Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:

¹³ To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.

³⁹ Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,

⁴⁰ When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?

⁴¹ Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

39 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?

² Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

³ They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.

⁴ Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.

⁵ Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?

⁶ To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

⁷ He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.

⁸ He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.

⁹ Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?

¹⁰ Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?

¹¹ Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?

¹² Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?

12 Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

² You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led.

³ Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say the Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.