Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ ¶ I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore bled in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

¹¹ ¶ I remembered the works of JAH; therefore I shall remember thy wonders of old.

¹² I meditated also on all thy works and spoke of thy doings.

¹³ Thy way, O God, is in holiness; who is so great a God as our God?

¹⁴ Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast declared thy strength among the peoples.

¹⁵ Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

¹⁶ The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

¹⁷ The clouds poured out floods of waters; the heavens thundered; thy bolts of lightning also went forth.

¹⁸ The voice of thy thunder was all around; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

¹⁹ Thy way was in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.

²⁰ Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

²⁹ ¶ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramothgilead.

³⁰ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself and enter into the battle, but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle.

³¹ But the king of Syria commanded his thirty-two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.

³² And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Surely this is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.

³³ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

³⁴ But a certain man, shooting his bow in perfection, smote the king of Israel between the joints of his coat of mail; therefore, he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand and carry me out of the host, for I am wounded.

³⁵ And the battle had increased that day, and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians and died in the evening, and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

³⁶ And at the going down of the sun there went a proclamation throughout the camp, saying, Every man to his city and every man to his own land.

³⁷ So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.

³⁸ And they washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria, and they also washed his armour; {Heb. fornications} and the dogs licked up his blood, according unto the word of the LORD which he had spoken.

³⁹ Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

⁴⁰ So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah, his son, reigned in his stead.

⁵¹ Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the year seventeen of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

⁵² And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin,

⁵³ for he served Baal and worshipped him and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.hhhhhhhhh

⁵ Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do ye not know your own selves if Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are reprobates.

⁶ But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

⁷ ¶ Now I pray to God that ye do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is good, though we be as reprobates.

⁸ For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

⁹ By which we are glad that we are weak and ye are strong, and even so we pray for your perfection.

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent lest being present I should treat you with more severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.