Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm to Asaph.

¹ ¶ The God of gods, even the LORD, has spoken and convocated the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.

³ Our God shall come and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

⁴ He shall convocate the heavens of above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

⁵ Gather my merciful ones together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

⁶ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is the judge. Selah.

⁷ ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee; I am God, even thy God.

⁸ I will not reprove thee regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I take you away, and there be none to deliver.

²³ Whosoever sacrifices praise glorifies me; and to him that orders his ways aright I will show the salvation of God.

² ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD speaks, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding.

⁴ O sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, generation of evildoers, corrupt sons! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they have turned back.

⁵ Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

⁷ Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

⁹ Except the LORD of the hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

²¹ ¶ How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

²² Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

²³ Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loves bribes and follows after rewards; they do not hear the fatherless in judgment, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.

¹⁹ ¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;

²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal;

²¹ for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

²² The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye is sincere, thy whole body shall be full of light.

²³ But if thine eye is evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!

²⁴ No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and riches.