Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.

52 Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God [abideth] continually.

² Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

³ Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

⁴ Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

⁵ God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶ The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, [saying,]

⁷ Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his avarice.

⁸ But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.

⁹ I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it]; and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is good.

¹⁸ Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:

¹⁹ as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

²⁰ Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

²¹ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell [a sweet odour] in your solemn assemblies.

²² For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept [them]; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.

²³ Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;

²⁴ but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

²⁵ Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

²⁶ Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;

²⁷ and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ],

¹⁵ of whom every family in [the] heavens and on earth is named,

¹⁶ in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,

¹⁸ in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;

¹⁹ and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of God.

²⁰ But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,

²¹ to him be glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus unto all generations of the age of ages. Amen).