Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

75 Unto Thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto Thee do we give thanks. For that Thy name is near, Thy wondrous works declare.

² When I shall receive the congregation, I will judge uprightly.

³ When the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved, I bear up the pillars of it. Selah

⁴ I said unto the fools, “Deal not foolishly,” and to the wicked, “Lift not up the horn.

⁵ Lift not up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck.”

⁶ For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south,

⁷ but God is the Judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another.

⁸ For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red and fully mixed; and He poureth out the same. But as for the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them.

⁹ But I will declare it for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ All the horns of the wicked will I also cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

41 “Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook? Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

² Canst thou put a hook into his nose, or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

³ Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee?

⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him as a servant for ever?

⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

⁶ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they parcel him among the merchants?

⁷ Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

⁸ Lay thine hand upon him; remember the battle, and do so no more!

⁹ Behold, the hope against him is in vain. Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

¹⁰ None is so fierce that dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand before Me?

¹¹ Who hath come before Me, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself,

¹⁴ saying, “Surely in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thee.”

¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

¹⁶ For men verily swear by the greater, and an oath of confirmation is to them an end to all strife.

¹⁷ Thereby God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,

¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we, who have fled for refuge, might have strong consolation to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

¹⁹ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil,

²⁰ where the Forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, who is made a high priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.