Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

11 In the LORD I put my trust. How, then, can you say to my soul, “Flee to your mountain as a bird”?

² For lo, the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrows upon the string, so that they may secretly shoot at those who are upright in heart.

³ For if the foundations are cast down, what can the righteous do?

⁴ The LORD is in His Holy palace. The LORD’s throne is in the sky. His eyes behold. His eyelids try the children of men.

⁵ The LORD will try the righteous. But the wicked, and he who loves iniquity, His soul hates.

⁶ Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and stormy tempest. This is the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous LORD loves righteousness. His face beholds the just. To him who excels upon the eight tune: A Psalm of David.

¹⁴ They shall lift up their voice. They shall shout for the magnificence of the LORD. They shall rejoice from the sea.

¹⁵ Therefore, praise the LORD in the valleys, the Name of the LORD God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.

¹⁶ From the outermost part of the Earth we have heard praises, glory to the just. And I said, “My leanness! My leanness! Woe to me! The transgressors have offended. Yea, the transgressors have grievously offended.”

¹⁷ Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the Earth!

¹⁸ And he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are open. And the foundations of the Earth shake.

¹⁹ The Earth has utterly broken down. The Earth has completely dissolved. The Earth has moved exceedingly.

²⁰ The Earth shall reel to and fro like a drunken man, and shall be removed like a tent. And its iniquity shall be heavy upon it, so that it shall fall and rise no more.

²¹ And on that day, the LORD shall visit the host above that is on high, the kings of the world that are upon the Earth.

²² And they shall be gathered together as the prisoners in the pit. And they shall be shut up in the prison. And after many days, they shall be visited.

²³ Then the Moon shall be ashamed, and the Sun, when the LORD of Hosts shall reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. And glory shall be before His ancient men.

⁴¹ Then Peter said to Him, “Master, did You tell this parable only to us, or to everyone?”

⁴² And the Lord said, “Who is a faithful steward, and wise; whom the master shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in season?

⁴³ “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, shall find so doing.

⁴⁴ “Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.

⁴⁵ “But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming’, and begins to beat the servants and maidens, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

⁴⁶ “the master of that servant will come on a day he does not suspect, and at an hour when he is unaware, and will cut him off, and give him his portion with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷ “And that servant who knew his master’s will and neither prepared himself nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many lashes.

⁴⁸ “But the one who did not know it and still committed things worthy of lashes, shall be beaten with few. For to whom much is given, much shall be required. And to whom much has been committed, much more will be requested.