Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

² May the Lord make your mighty scepter
    reach far from Zion!
    Rule over your enemies!
³ Your people stand ready
    on your day of battle.
    “In holy grandeur, from the dawn’s womb, fight!^[a]
        Your youthful strength is like the dew itself.”
⁴ The Lord has sworn a solemn pledge and won’t change his mind:
    “You are a priest forever in line with Melchizedek.”^[b]
5 My master, by your strong hand,
    God has crushed kings on his day of wrath.^[c]

⁶ God brings the nations to justice,
    piling the dead bodies, crushing heads throughout the earth.
⁷ God drinks from a stream along the way,
    then holds his head up high.^[d]

22 A good reputation is better than much wealth;
    high esteem is better than silver and gold.
² The rich and the poor have this in common:
    the Lord made them both.
³ Prudent people see trouble and hide,
    while the simpleminded go right to it and get punished.
⁴ The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord
    is wealth, honor, and life.
⁵ Thorns and nets are in the path of the crooked;
    those who guard their lives keep their distance.
⁶ Train children in the way they should go;
    when they grow old, they won’t depart from it.
⁷ The wealthy rule over the poor;
    a borrower is a slave to a lender.
⁸ Those who sow injustice will harvest evil;
    the rod of their fury will come to an end.
⁹ Happy are generous people,
    because they give some of their food to the poor.