Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

75 We will praise You, O God! We will praise You, for Your Name is near! They will declare Your wondrous works.

² “When I shall take a convenient time, I will judge righteously.

³ “The Earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved; but I will establish the pillars of it. Selah.

⁴ “I said to the foolish, ‘Do not be so foolish,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn.

⁵ “‘Do not lift up your horn on High, nor speak with a stiff neck.’”

⁶ For exaltation is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

⁷ But God is the judge. He makes low and He makes high.

⁸ For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine is foaming. It is fully mixed, and He pours out of the same. Surely, all the wicked of the Earth shall drain and drink the dregs thereof.

⁹ But I will declare forever and sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ Also, all the horns of the wicked I will break. But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. To him who excels on Neginoth: a Psalm, or song, committed to Asaph

¹⁵ And when the children of the Prophets who were at Jericho saw him on the other side, they said, “The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha!” And they came to meet him, and fell to the ground before him,

¹⁶ and said to him, “Behold, now, there are fifty strong men with your servants. Please let them go and seek your master, if so be that the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” But he said, “You shall not send.”

¹⁷ Still, they urged him until he was ashamed. Therefore, he said, “Send.” So, they sent fifty men, who looked for three days but did not find him.

¹⁸ Therefore they returned to him (for he waited in Jericho). And he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”

¹⁹ And the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, if you please. The situation of this city is pleasant, as you, my lord, see. But the water is bad, and the ground barren.”

²⁰ Then he said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” And they brought it to him.

²¹ And he went to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt there, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water. Death shall no longer come from it, nor barrenness.”

²² So the waters have been healed to this day, according to the Word of Elisha which he had spoken.

⁷ Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old Commandment which you have had from the beginning. This old Commandment is that Word which you have heard from the beginning.

⁸ On the other hand, a new Commandment I do write to you (which is true in Him and also in you). For the darkness is passing, and the true Light now shines.

⁹ Whoever says that he is in the Light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.

¹⁰ Whoever loves his brother, abides in the Light. And there is no stumbling block in him.

¹¹ But whoever hates his brother, is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.