Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

² The Lord shall send your mighty scepter out of Zion;
    rule in the midst of your enemies.
³ Your people will follow you
    in the day of your battle;
on the holy mountains
    at dawn of the morning,
    the dew of your youth belongs to you.

⁴ The Lord has sworn
    and will not change,
“You are a priest forever
    after the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵ The Lord is at your right hand;
    He shall strike down kings in the day of His wrath.
⁶ He shall judge among the nations; He shall fill them with dead bodies;
    He shall scatter heads all over the land.
⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the path;
    then He shall lift up the head.

22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
    and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

² The rich and poor have this in common,
    the Lord is the maker of them all.

³ A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself,
    but the simple pass on and are punished.

⁴ By humility and the fear of the Lord
    are riches, and honor, and life.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
    he who guards his soul will be far from them.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go,
    and when he is old he will not depart from it.

⁷ The rich rules over the poor,
    and the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸ He who sows iniquity will reap vanity,
    and the rod of his anger will fail.

⁹ He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed,
    for he gives of his bread to the poor.