Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

² But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

³ And he [is] as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

⁴ The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

²⁰ Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

²¹ What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee, since thou thyself hast trained them to be princes in chief over thee? Shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?

²² And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, [and] thy heels have suffered violence.

²³ Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? [Then] may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

²⁴ And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

²⁵ This shall be thy lot, thy measured portion from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and confided in falsehood.

²⁶ Therefore will I also turn thy skirts over thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.

²⁷ Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy fornication, on the hills, in the fields,—thine abominations, have I seen. Woe unto thee, Jerusalem! Wilt thou not be made clean? after how long a time yet?

¹⁷ And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,

¹⁸ knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from [your] fathers,

¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, [the blood] of Christ,

²⁰ foreknown indeed before [the] foundation of [the] world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

²¹ who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among [the] dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God.

²² Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

²³ being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by [the] living and abiding word of God.

²⁴ Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as [the] flower of grass. The grass has withered and [its] flower has fallen;

²⁵ but the word of [the] Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings [is] preached to you.

2 Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,