Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

² “How long will you all judge unjustly
    and accept partiality of the wicked? Selah
³ Defend the poor and fatherless;
    vindicate the afflicted and needy.
⁴ Grant escape to the abused and the destitute,
    pluck them out of the hand of the false.

⁵ “They have neither knowledge nor understanding;
    they walk in darkness:
    all the foundations of the earth are shaken.”

⁶ I have said, “You are gods,
    sons of the Most High, all of you,
⁷ but you all shall die like men,
    and fall like a man, O princes.”

⁸ Arise, O God, judge the earth,
    for You shall inherit all nations.

For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept His commandments.
The lies which their fathers followed
    have led them astray.
⁵ So I will send fire against Judah,
    and it will devour the fortresses of Jerusalem.

For three transgressions of Israel,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they sell the righteous for silver,
    and the poor for a pair of sandals.
⁷ They trample the head of the poor
    into the dust of the earth,
    and push the oppressed out of the way.
A man and his father go in to the same woman,
    profaning My holy name.
⁸ They recline by every altar
    on garments taken in pledge,
and in the house of their gods
    they drink the wine from those who have been fined.

⁹ Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
    whose height was like the height of the cedars.
    He was strong as the oaks,
yet I destroyed his fruit above
    and his roots below.

¹⁰ It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
    and led you forty years through the wilderness,
    to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹ I raised up some of your sons as prophets,
    and some of your young men as Nazirites.
Is it not so, O children of Israel?
    says the Lord.