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.

¹³ ¶ Didst thou give beautiful wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

¹⁴ Who leaves her eggs in the earth and warms them in dust

¹⁵ and forgets that the foot may crush them or that the wild beast may break them.

¹⁶ She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, not fearing that her labour is in vain,

¹⁷ because God caused her to forget wisdom and did not give her understanding.

¹⁸ In her time she lifts up herself on high; she scorns the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ ¶ Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

²⁰ Canst thou make him leap as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is formidable.

²¹ He paws at the earth and rejoices in his strength; he goes forth to meet the armed men.

²² He mocks fear and is not afraid; neither does he turn his face from the sword.

²³ The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

²⁴ He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage; the sound of the shofar does not trouble him;

²⁵ for the blasts of the shofar fill him with courage; he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the princes and the sound of the battle-cry.

⁴ Now there is dispersal of gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁵ And there is dispersal of ministries, but the same Lord.

⁶ And there is dispersal of operations, but it is the same God who works all in each one.

⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one to profit with.

⁸ For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

⁹ to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

¹⁰ to another, the operation of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, different kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:

¹¹ one and the same Spirit operates all these things, dispersing to each one his own gift as he wills.

¹² ¶ For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also the Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or Greeks, whether we are slaves or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.