Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
59 O, my God, deliver me from my enemies. Defend me from those who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the wicked doers; and save me from the bloody men.
3 For lo, they have laid in wait for my soul. The mighty men have gathered against me, not for my offense, nor for my sin, O LORD.
4 Without fault on my part, they run and prepare themselves against me. Arise to assist me; and behold!
5 You, O LORD God of Hosts, O God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen. Do not be merciful to all who transgress maliciously. Selah.
6 They go to and fro in the evening. They bark like dogs and go about the city.
7 Behold, they brag in their talk, with swords in their lips (“For who hears?” they say).
8 But You, O LORD, shall hold them in derision. You shall laugh at all the heathen.
9 He is strong. I will wait upon You. For God is my Defense.
10 My merciful God will go before me. God will let me see my desire upon my enemies.
11 Do not kill them, lest my people forget it. But scatter them by Your power; and put them down, O LORD, our shield,
12 for the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips. And let them be taken in their pride, for their perjury and lies they speak.
13 Consume them in Your wrath. Consume them, so that they are no more; and let them know that God rules in Jacob unto the ends of the world. Selah.
14 And in the evening, they shall go to and fro and bark like dogs and go about the city.
15 They shall run here and there for food. Surely, they shall not be satisfied though they stay all night.
16 But I will sing of Your power and will praise Your mercy in the morning. For You have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 To You, O my Strength, I will sing. For God is my Defense, my merciful God. To him who excels upon Shushan Eduth, or Michtam: A Psalm of David, to teach, when he fought against Aram Naharaim, and against Aram Zobah; when Joab returned and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the salt valley
9 Then Elisha the Prophet called one of the children of the Prophets, and said to him, “Gird your loins and take this box of oil in your hand and get yourself to Ramoth Gilead.
2 “And when you get there, look for Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. And go and make him rise up from among his brethren and lead him to a secret chamber.
3 “Then take the box of oil and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have anointed you for king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee without any delay.”
4 So the servant of the Prophet got himself to Ramoth Gilead.
5 And when he came in, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. And he said, “I have a message to you, O captain.” And Jehu said, “To which one of us?” And he answered, “To you, O captain.”
6 And he arose and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head and said to him, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
7 ‘And you shall strike the House of Ahab, your master, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants, the Prophets — and the blood of all the servants of the LORD — at the hand of Jezebel.
8 ‘For the whole House of Ahab shall be destroyed. And I will cut off all males from Ahab, he who is shut up as well as he who is left in Israel.
9 ‘And I will make the House of Ahab like the House of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the House of Baasha, the son of Ahijah.
10 ‘And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the field of Jezreel. And there shall be no one to bury her.’” And he opened the door and fled.
11 Then Jehu came out to the servants of his lord. And someone said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad man come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the man and what his talk was.”
12 And they said, “It is false. Tell it to us now.” Then he said, “(Thus and thus) he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have anointed you for king over Israel.”’”
13 Then they hurried. And every man took his garment and put it underneath him, at the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king!”
18 For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness. But to us who are saved, it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will cast away the understanding of the prudent.”
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Has not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world in its own wisdom did not know God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe;
22 seeing also that the Jews require a sign, and the Grecians seek after wisdom.
23 But we preach Christ crucified, indeed a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Grecians.
24 But to those who are called, both of the Jews and Grecians, we preach Christ: the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man, and the weakness of God is stronger than man.
26 For brothers, you see your calling: how that not many are wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty things.
28 And vile things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.
29 That no flesh should boast in His presence.
30 But you are of Him in Christ Jesus, Who, out of God, is made wisdom and righteousness to us, and sanctification, and redemption.
31 That it may be as it is written, ‘The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord’.
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