Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

10 Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?

² The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

³ For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.

⁴ The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!

⁵ His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; [as for] all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

⁶ He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.

⁹ He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.

¹⁰ He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.

¹¹ He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see [it].

¹² Arise, Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted.

¹³ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].

¹⁴ Thou hast seen [it], for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.

¹⁶ Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.

¹⁷ Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,

¹⁸ To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

¹⁶ And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, and make not intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.

¹⁷ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁸ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

¹⁹ Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it not themselves, to the shame of their own face?

²⁰ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place; upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

²¹ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

²² For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;

²³ but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

²⁴ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

²⁵ Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, unto this day, have I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them;

²⁶ but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse than their fathers.

⁷ And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open:

⁸ I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an opened door, which no one can shut, because thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

⁹ Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie; behold, I will cause that they shall come and shall do homage before thy feet, and shall know that *I* have loved thee.

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, *I* also will keep thee out of the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole habitable world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

¹¹ I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

¹² He that overcomes, him will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more at all out; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven, from my God, and my new name.

¹³ He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.