Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ ¶ I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore bled in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

³ I remembered God and cried out; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

⁴ Thou didst hold my eyelids open; I am broken and did not speak.

⁵ I have considered the days from the beginning, the years of the ages.

⁶ I call to remembrance my songs of the night; I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.

⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

⁸ Is his mercy gone for ever? does his word fail from generation to generation?

⁹ Has God forgotten to have mercy? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

¹⁰ And I said, This is my infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

¹¹ ¶ I remembered the works of JAH; therefore I shall remember thy wonders of old.

¹² I meditated also on all thy works and spoke of thy doings.

¹³ Thy way, O God, is in holiness; who is so great a God as our God?

¹⁴ Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast declared thy strength among the peoples.

¹⁵ Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

¹⁶ The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

¹⁷ The clouds poured out floods of waters; the heavens thundered; thy bolts of lightning also went forth.

¹⁸ The voice of thy thunder was all around; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

¹⁹ Thy way was in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.

²⁰ Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

30 ¶ The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

² Surely I am more carnal than any man and have not the understanding of a man.

³ I neither learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the holy.

⁴ Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?

⁵ Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto those that put their trust in him.

⁶ Do not add unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

⁷ ¶ Two things have I required of thee; do not deny me them before I die:

⁸ Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my judgment:

⁹ Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and blaspheme the name of my God.

4 ¶ Then Jesus was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

² And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

³ And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones be made into bread.

⁴ But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

⁵ Then the devil took him up into the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the temple

⁶ and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

⁷ Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

⁸ Again, the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them

⁹ and said unto him, All these things I will give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

¹⁰ Then Jesus said unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

¹¹ Then the devil left him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.