Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ ¶ God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.

² How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

³ Do right concerning the poor and fatherless; do justice to the poor and destitute.

⁴ Deliver the poor and destitute; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

⁵ They do not know, neither do they understand; they walk in darkness; they move all the foundations of the earth.

⁶ ¶ I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are sons of the most High.

⁷ But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the tyrants.

⁸ Arise, O God, judge the earth, for thou shalt inherit all the Gentiles.

⁴ Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Judah and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his statutes, and their lies caused them to err after which their fathers have walked:

⁵ but I will send fire in Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

⁶ Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Israel and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,

⁷ desiring that there be dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and to twist the way of the humble: and the man and his father have gone in unto the same maid, profaning my holy name:

⁸ and they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by any altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

⁹ ¶ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as an oak; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

¹⁰ Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years through the wilderness that you might possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹ And I raised up of your sons for prophets and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? said the LORD.

⁹ And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹¹ Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.

¹² But when Jacob heard that there was wheat in Egypt, he sent our fathers the first time.

¹³ And in the second Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s lineage was made known unto Pharaoh.

¹⁴ Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob unto him and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

¹⁵ So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

¹⁶ who were carried over into Shechem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.