Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.

75 Unto thee we give thanks, O God, we give thanks; and thy name is near: thy marvellous works declare it.

² When I shall receive the assembly, I will judge with equity.

³ The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah.

⁴ I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

⁵ Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a [stiff] neck.

⁶ For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation [come]:

⁷ For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.

⁸ For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, [and] drink.

⁹ But as for me, I will declare for ever; I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

¹⁵ And the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho on the opposite side saw him, and they said, The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him,

¹⁶ and said to him, Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty valiant men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master, lest perhaps the Spirit of Jehovah have taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some ravine. And he said, Ye shall not send.

¹⁷ And they pressed him till he was ashamed, and he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men, and they sought three days, but did not find him.

¹⁸ And they came again to him (now he was staying at Jericho); and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?

¹⁹ And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold now, the situation of the city is good, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.

²⁰ And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt in it. And they brought it to him.

²¹ And he went forth to the source of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith Jehovah: I have healed these waters: there shall not be from thence any more death or barrenness.

²² And the waters were healed to this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spoke.

⁷ Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.

⁸ Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light already shines.

⁹ He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.

¹⁰ He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

¹¹ But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.