Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.

75 Unto thee we give thanks, O God, we give thanks; and thy name is near: thy marvellous works declare it.

² When I shall receive the assembly, I will judge with equity.

³ The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah.

⁴ I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

⁵ Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a [stiff] neck.

⁶ For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation [come]:

⁷ For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.

⁸ For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, [and] drink.

⁹ But as for me, I will declare for ever; I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

41 Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?

² Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike?

³ Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak softly unto thee?

⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?

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

⁶ Shall partners make traffic of him, will they divide him among merchants?

⁷ Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears?

⁸ Lay thy hand upon him; remember the battle,—do no more!

⁹ Lo, hope as to him is belied: is not one cast down even at the sight of him?

¹⁰ None is so bold as to stir him up; and who is he that will stand before me?

¹¹ Who hath first given to me, that I should repay [him]? [Whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.

¹³ For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,

¹⁴ saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;

¹⁵ and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

¹⁶ For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

¹⁷ Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

¹⁸ that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

¹⁹ which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil,

²⁰ where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.