Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm to Asaph.

¹ ¶ The God of gods, even the LORD, has spoken and convocated the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.

³ Our God shall come and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

⁴ He shall convocate the heavens of above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

⁵ Gather my merciful ones together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is the judge. Selah.

16 ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying,

² Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust and made thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam and hast made my people Israel sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

³ behold, I will burn up the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

⁴ He that dies of Baasha in the city, the dogs shall eat; and he that dies of his in the fields, the fowls of the air shall eat.

⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

⁶ So Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah, his son, reigned in his stead.

⁷ And likewise by the hand of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, had come the word of the LORD upon Baasha and upon his house and upon all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, so that he would be made like the house of Jeroboam and because of having smitten him.

⁴¹ ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it,

⁴² saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

⁴³ For the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and constrain thee on every side

⁴⁴ and shall cast thee down to the ground and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.