Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

21 The king shall joy in thy strength, Jehovah; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice.

² Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

³ For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴ He asked life of thee; thou gavest [it] him, length of days for ever and ever.

⁵ His glory is great through thy salvation; majesty and splendour hast thou laid upon him.

⁶ For thou hast made him to be blessings for ever; thou hast filled him with joy by thy countenance.

⁷ For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.

⁸ Thy 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 furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, 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 mischievous device, which they could not execute.

¹² For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

¹³ Be thou exalted, Jehovah, in thine own strength: we will sing and celebrate thy power.

¹¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

¹² And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.

¹³ And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

¹⁴ And these are the names of those that were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

¹⁵ and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

¹⁶ and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.

⁷ Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive [the] early and [the] latter rain.

⁸ *Ye* also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh.

⁹ Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

¹⁰ Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

¹² But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.