Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Shoshannim, {lilies} A testimony of Asaph: A Psalm.

¹ ¶ Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.

² In the presence of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength and come and save us.

³ Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁴ O LORD God of the hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁵ Thou dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶ Thou dost make us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.

⁷ Turn us again, O God of the hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou didst make strong for thyself,

¹⁸ so we will not go back from thee. Thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of the hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

¹⁸ ¶ Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, O Lord GOD, Who am I and what is my house that thou hast brought me thus far?

¹⁹ And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy slave’s house for a great while to come and that this shall be the condition of a man, O Lord GOD.

²⁰ And what more can David say unto thee? For thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy slave.

²¹ For thou hast done all these great things by thy word and according to thine own heart to make thy slave know them.

²² Therefore, thou art great, O LORD God, for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

4 ¶ Now I say That the heir, as long as he is a child differs in nothing from a slave, though he be lord of all,

² but is under the hand of tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

³ Even so we, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements of the world,

⁴ but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

⁵ to redeem those that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

⁶ And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father;

⁷ therefore, thou art no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.