Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

² Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

³ The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is upon many waters.

⁴ The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

⁵ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD broke the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ And He made them skip like calves; Lebanon and Sirion like the sons of the unicorns.

⁷ The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

⁸ The voice of the LORD that shall shake the wilderness; the LORD shall shake the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of the LORD shall make the hinds to calve and shall uncover the forests: and in his temple every one speaks to his glory.

¹⁰ The LORD sits upon the flood; yea, the LORD sat down as King for ever.

¹¹ The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people in peace.

³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill the appetite of the young lions,

⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens and abide in their lairs to lie in wait?

⁴¹ Who provided food for the raven; when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food?

39 ¶ Knowest thou the time when the mountain goats bring forth? Hast thou observed when the hinds calve?

² Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

³ How they crouch down, they bring forth their young ones, and dismiss their pain.

⁴ Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; they go forth and never return unto them again.

⁵ Who freed the wild ass, and who loosed its bands?

⁶ Unto whom I made a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the salty land.

⁷ He laughs at the multitude of the city, neither does he hearken to the voice of the exactor of tribute.

⁸ The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

⁹ Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy crib?

¹⁰ Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Will he harrow the valleys after thee?

¹¹ Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

¹² Wilt thou trust him, that he will bring home thy seed and gather it into thy barn?

12 ¶ Now regarding spiritual things, brothers, I would not have you ignore them.

² Ye know that when ye were Gentiles, ye went, even as ye were led, unto the dumb idols.

³ Therefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema and that no one can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Spirit.