Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵ My soul, rest thou only in God, for my hope is from him.

⁶ He only is my rock and my saving health; he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

⁷ In God is my saving health and my glory; the rock of my strength and my refuge is in God.

⁸ ¶ Wait in him at all times; ye peoples, pour out your heart before him; God is our refuge. Selah.

⁹ Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

¹⁰ Trust not in violence and become not vain in the taking of spoil; if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

¹¹ God has spoken once; twice have I heard this that power belongs unto God.

¹² Also unto thee, O Lord, belongs mercy, for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

¹⁴ ¶ Cursed be the day in which I was born; do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew and did not repent; and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide

¹⁷ because he did not slay me in the womb, and my mother would have been my grave, and her womb perpetual conception.

¹⁸ Why did I come forth out of the womb? To see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame?

¹³ Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you, they would have repented a long while ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴ Therefore it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

¹⁵ And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto the heavens, shalt be thrust down to Hades.

¹⁶ He that hears you hears me, and he that despises you despises me, and he that despises me despises him that sent me.