Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.

87 His foundation is in the mountains of holiness.

² Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion more than all the habitations of Jacob.

³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

⁴ I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among them that know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: this [man] was born there.

⁵ And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.

⁶ Jehovah will count, when he inscribeth the peoples, This [man] was born there. Selah.

⁷ As well the singers as the dancers [shall say], All my springs are in thee.

3 For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

² I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;

³ and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk [it].

⁴ Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;

⁵ because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,

⁶ and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.

⁷ Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.

⁸ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.

¹² Beloved, take not [as] strange the fire [of persecution] which has taken place amongst you for [your] trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;

¹³ but as ye have share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exultation.

¹⁴ If ye are reproached in [the] name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; for the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.]

¹⁵ Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;

¹⁶ but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name.

¹⁷ For the time of having the judgment begin from the house of God [is come]; but if first from us, what [shall be] the end of those who obey not the glad tidings of God?

¹⁸ And if the righteous is difficultly saved, where shall the impious and [the] sinner appear?

¹⁹ Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.