Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.

¹ ¶ O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us; thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

² Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it; heal its breaches, for it shakes.

³ Thou hast showed thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of shaking.

⁴ Thou hast given a banner to those that fear thee that they raise up for the truth. Selah.

⁵ That thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand and hear me.

⁶ ¶ God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁷ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;

⁸ Moab is my washpot; over Edom I will cast out my shoe; Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

⁹ Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?

¹⁰ Surely thou, O God, who had cast us off; and thou, O God, who did not go out with our armies.

¹¹ Give us help from trouble, for vain is the salvation of man.

¹² Through God we shall do valiantly, for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

14 ¶ O Israel, become converted unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

² Take with you words, and be converted unto the LORD; say unto him, Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips.

³ Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods, for in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

⁴ ¶ I will heal their rebellion; I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

⁵ I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall flourish as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

⁶ His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

⁷ Those that shall sit under his shadow shall return; they shall be given life as the wheat, and they shall flourish as the vine; the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁸ ¶ Ephraim shall then say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him and gaze upon him; I will be unto him like a green fir tree; of me shall thy fruit be found.

⁹ Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

²² ¶ And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

²³ The life is more than food, and the body is more than raiment.

²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

²⁵ And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

²⁶ If ye then are not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

²⁷ Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

²⁸ If then God so clothes the grass, which is today in the field and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

²⁹ And seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, neither be ye high minded.

³⁰ For all these things do the Gentiles of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things.

³¹ But rather seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.