Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm 50

A Psalm of ^[a]Asaph.

¹ The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks and calls the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

³ Our God comes and does not keep silence; a fire devours before Him, and round about Him a mighty tempest rages.

⁴ He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that He may judge His people:

⁵ Gather together to Me My saints [those who have found grace in My sight], those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.

⁶ And the heavens declare His righteousness (rightness and justice), for God, He is judge. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

16 And the word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

² Because I exalted you [Baasha] out of the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins,

³ Behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and will make your house like [that] of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

⁴ Any of Baasha’s family who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and any who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.

⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, what he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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

⁷ Also the word of the Lord against Baasha and his house came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani for all the evil that Baasha did in the sight of the Lord in provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands [idols], in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it [the family of Jeroboam, of his own accord].

⁴¹ And as He approached, He saw the city, and He wept [^[a]audibly] over it,

⁴² Exclaiming, Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace (for ^[b]freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin and upon which your peace—your ^[c]security, safety, prosperity, and happiness—depends)! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

⁴³ For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up a ^[d]bank [with pointed stakes] about you and surround you and shut you in on every side.^(A)

⁴⁴ And they will dash you down to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, [all] because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand [from observation and experience] the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time ^[e]in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ].