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.

¹² But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.

¹³ Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

¹⁴ Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul:

¹⁵ neither shall he that handles the bow stand; and he that is swift of foot shall not escape: neither shall he that rides the horse save his life.

¹⁶ And he that is strong among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, said the LORD.

3 ¶ Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

² You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore, I will visit all your iniquities against you.

³ Can two walk together except they be agreed?

⁴ Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he has taken nothing?

⁵ Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth without a fowler? Shall the snare rise up from the earth and have taken nothing at all?

⁶ Shall the shofar be blown in the city and the people not be afraid? Shall there be any evil in the city which the LORD has not done?

⁷ Because the Lord GOD will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his slaves the prophets.

⁸ The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

¹⁸ He that believes on him is not condemned, but he that does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than the light because their deeds were evil.

²⁰ For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

²¹ But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.