Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
28 1 Being in great fear and heaviness of heart to see God dishonored by the wicked, he desireth to be rid of them. 4 And crieth for vengeance against them: and at length assureth himself, that God hath heard his prayer, 9 Unto whose tuition he commendeth all the faithful.
A Psalm of David.
1 Unto thee, O Lord, do I cry: O my strength, be not deaf toward me, lest if thou answer me not, I be like [a]them that go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry unto thee, when I hold up my hands toward thine [b]holy Oracle.
3 [c]Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity: which speak friendly to their neighbors, when malice is in their hearts.
4 [d]Reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their inventions: recompense them after the work of their hands: render them their reward.
5 For they reward not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands: therefore [e]break them down, and build them not up.
6 [f]Praised be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The Lord is my strength and my shield: mine heart trusted in him, and I was helped: therefore mine heart shall rejoice, and with my song will I praise him.
8 The Lord is [g]their strength, and he is the strength of the deliverances of his anointed.
9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and exalt them forever.
29 ¶ Afterward Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes,
30 And returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not yonder, and I, whither shall I go?
31 And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood.
32 So they sent that parti-colored coat, [a]and they brought it unto their father, and said, This have we found: see now, whether it be thy son’s coat, or no.
33 Then he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat: a wicked beast hath (A)devoured him: Joseph is surely torn in pieces.
34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.
35 Then all his sons and his daughters arose up to comfort him, but he would not be comforted, but said, [b]Surely I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning: so his father wept for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar [c]an Eunuch of Pharaoh’s and his [d]chief steward.
4 For if God spared not the (A)Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into [a]hell, and delivered them into [b]chains of darkness, to be kept unto damnation:
5 Neither hath spared the [c]old world, but saved (B)Noah the eighth person a [d]preacher of righteousness, and brought in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly,
6 And (C)turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them and overthrew them, and made them an ensample unto them that after should live ungodly,
7 And delivered just Lot vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the wicked:
8 (For he being righteous, and dwelling among them, in [e]seeing and hearing, [f]vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.)
9 The Lord [g]knoweth to deliver the godly out of tentation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment under punishment:
10 [h]And chiefly them that walk after the flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government, which are bold, and stand in their own conceit, and fear not to speak evil of them that are in [i]dignity.
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