Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

[A Psalm] of David.

25 Unto thee, Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.

² My God, I confide in thee; let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

³ Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

⁴ Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths.

⁵ Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

⁶ Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore will he instruct sinners in the way:

⁹ The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

²⁶ But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

²⁷ And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.

²⁸ But when they had rest, they did evil again before thee; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them; and again they cried unto thee, and thou heardest [them] from the heavens, and many times didst thou deliver them, according to thy mercies.

²⁹ And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

³⁰ And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

³¹ Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies' sake, thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

²⁰ But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that its desolation is drawn nigh.

²¹ Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;

²² for these are days of avenging, that all the things that are written may be accomplished.

²³ But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled.