Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy saving health how greatly shall he rejoice!

² Thou hast given him his heart’s desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

³ For thou givest him beforehand the blessings of goodness; thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴ He asked life of thee, and thou didst give him length of days for ever and ever.

⁵ His glory is great in thy saving health; honour and beauty hast thou laid upon him.

⁶ For thou hast made him most blessed for ever; thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

⁷ ¶ For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

⁸ Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

⁹ Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger; the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

¹⁰ Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth and their seed from among the children of men.

¹¹ For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.

¹² Therefore shalt thou separate them; thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

¹³ Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy valour.

¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye dead of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ Behold, I have placed thee as a threshing instrument, as a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small and shalt make the hills as chaff.

¹⁶ Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; but thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ The poor and needy seek the waters that are not; their tongue fails for thirst; I the LORD will hear them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

¹⁸ I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the plains; I will turn the wilderness into pools of water and the dry land into springs of water.

¹⁹ I will bring forth in the wilderness cedars, thorns, myrtles, and olive trees; I will set in the desert the fir tree and the pine and the box tree together:

²⁰ That they may see and know and take warning and understand together that the hand of the LORD does this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

¹⁴ ¶ But I am convinced regarding you, my brethren, that even without my exhortation ye are full of charity, full of all knowledge, so as to be able to admonish one another.

¹⁵ Nevertheless I have written, brethren, in part boldly, as admonishing you by the grace that is given to me of God,

¹⁶ being the minister of Jesus Christ, to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be well pleasing, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ ¶ Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus, with regard to God.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed,

¹⁹ with power of signs and wonders, in virtue of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have filled the entire area with the gospel of the Christ.

²⁰ And in this manner I preached this gospel, not where Christ had been named previously, not to build upon a foundation belonging to another,

²¹ but, as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and those that have not heard shall understand.