Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.

83 O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:

² For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.

³ They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:

⁴ They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

⁹ Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:

¹⁰ Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.

¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish:

¹⁸ That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.

2 And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi.

² And the woman conceived, and bore a son. And she saw him that he was fair, and hid him three months.

³ And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of reeds, and plastered it with resin and with pitch, and put the child in it, and laid [it] in the sedge on the bank of the river.

⁴ And his sister stood afar off to see what would happen to him.

⁵ And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.

⁶ And she opened [it], and saw the child, and behold, the boy wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is [one] of the Hebrews' children.

⁷ And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a wet-nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

⁸ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the damsel went and called the child's mother.

⁹ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it.

¹⁰ And when the child was grown, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

¹² But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in [the] Lord, and admonish you,

¹³ and to regard them exceedingly in love on account of their work. Be in peace among yourselves.

¹⁴ But we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, be patient towards all.

¹⁵ See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

¹⁶ rejoice always;

¹⁷ pray unceasingly;

¹⁸ in everything give thanks, for this is [the] will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;