Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

125 They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

² As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth, even for ever.

³ For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the allotment of the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to do iniquity.

⁴ Do good, O Lord, unto those that are good and to them that are upright in their hearts.

⁵ As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; but peace shall be upon Israel.

1 The Proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:

² to know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

³ to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity;

⁴ to give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man knowledge and discretion.

⁵ A wise man will hear and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsel

⁶ to understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother;

⁹ for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

¹¹ If they say, “Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

¹² let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down to the pit;

¹³ we shall find much precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

¹⁴ cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse”

¹⁵ my son, walk not thou in the way with them; restrain thy foot from their path;

¹⁶ for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood.

¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird!

¹⁸ And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy for gain, which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

2 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art who judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself, for thou that judgest doest the same things.

² But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

³ And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those who do such things and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵ But because of thy hardness and impenitence of heart, thou treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the Day of Wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁶ who will render to every man according to his deeds:

⁷ to those who by patient continuance in welldoing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

⁸ but unto those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

⁹ tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who doeth evil, upon the Jew first and also upon the Gentile;

¹⁰ but glory, honor and peace to every man who worketh good, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.

¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God.