Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of Asaph.

82 God standeth in the assembly of God, he judgeth among the gods.

² How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.

³ Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;

⁴ Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

⁵ They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.

⁶ I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;

⁷ But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

⁸ Arise, O God, judge the earth; for *thou* shalt inherit all the nations.

¹² And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

¹³ Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.

¹⁴ And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.

¹⁵ Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul;

¹⁶ and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.

3 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

² You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

³ Shall two walk together except they be agreed?

⁴ Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing?

⁵ Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no gin [is laid] for him? Will the snare spring up from the earth when nothing at all hath been taken?

⁶ Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have done [it]?

⁷ But the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

⁸ The lion hath roared,—who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken,—who can but prophesy?

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

¹⁷ For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

¹⁸ He that believes on him is not judged: but he that believes not has been already judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.

²⁰ For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

²¹ but he that practises the truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been wrought in God.