Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

50 The God of gods, The LORD, has spoken and called the Earth, from the rising up of the Sun to the going down thereof.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, has God shined.

³ Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall devour before Him, and a mighty storm shall be moved around Him.

⁴ He shall call the heaven above and the Earth, to judge His people.

⁵ “Gather My saints together to Me, those who make a covenant with Me with sacrifice.”

⁶ And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge Himself. Selah.

⁷ “Hear, O My people, and I will speak. Hear, O Israel, and I will testify to you. I am God. Your God.

⁸ “I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings continually before me.

²² “Oh, consider this, you who forget God; lest I tear you in pieces and there are none who can deliver you.

²³ “He who offers praise shall glorify Me. And to him who sets his way aright, I will show the salvation of God.” To him who excels: A Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone into Bathsheba.

⁸ The LORD has sent a Word into Jacob, and it lighted upon Israel.

⁹ And all the people shall know—Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria— who say in the pride and presumption of their heart,

¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen, but we will build it with hewn stones. The wild fig trees are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

¹¹ Nevertheless, the LORD will raise up the adversaries of Rezin against him and join his enemies together,

¹² Aram in front and the Philistines behind. And they shall devour Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His hand is stretched out still.

¹³ For the people do not turn to Him Who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁴ Therefore, the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, branch and rush, in one day.

¹⁵ To the ancient and the honorable man, He is the head. And to the prophet who teaches lies, He is the tail.

¹⁶ For the leaders of the people cause them to err. And those who are led by them are devoured.

¹⁷ Therefore, the LORD shall have no pleasure in their young men. Nor will He have compassion on their fatherless and on their widows. For everyone is a hypocrite and wicked. And every mouth speaks folly. For all this, His wrath is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

9 I say the truth in Christ. I do not lie; my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,

² so that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

³ For I could wish myself to be accursed, to be separated from Christ, for my brothers who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

⁴ (who are the Israelites), to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises;

⁵ from whom are the Fathers, and from whom, concerning the flesh, Christ - Who is God over all, blessed forever – came. Amen.

⁶ Notwithstanding, it cannot be that the Word of God should take no effect. For not all are Israel who are of Israel.

⁷ Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. But: “In Isaac shall your seed be called.”

⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh are not the children of God. But the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

⁹ For this is a Word of Promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son”;