Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ I put my trust in the LORD: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

² For, behold, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

³ The foundations shall be destroyed. What has the righteous done?

⁴ ¶ The LORD is in the temple of his holiness, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

⁵ The LORD tries the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.

⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, with winds of whirlwinds: this shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance beholds the upright.

24 ¶ Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it naked and turns it upside down and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

² And it shall be, as with the people so with the priest; as with the slave so with his master; as with the maid so with her mistress; as with the buyer so with the seller; as with the lender so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury so with the giver of usury to him.

³ The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.

⁴ The earth has destroyed itself and fallen; the world has become sick and fallen; the haughty peoples of the earth are become sick.

⁵ The earth is also become bankrupt under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, falsified the order, broken the everlasting covenant.

⁶ Therefore the curse has consumed the earth, and those that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men left.

⁷ The new wine is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh.

⁸ The mirth of tambourines ceases; the noise of those that rejoice ends; the joy of the harp ceases.

⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song; the drink shall be bitter to them that would drink it.

¹⁰ The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up that no man may come in.

¹¹ There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened; the mirth of the land is gone.

¹² In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

¹³ ¶ For thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the peoples as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

¹⁸ of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called,

¹⁹ accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence he also received him in a figure.

²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning what they should become.

²¹ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

²² By faith Joseph, as he died, made mention of the departing of the sons of Israel, and gave a commandment concerning his bones.

²³ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents because they saw he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,

²⁶ esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.

²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

²⁸ By faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of the blood lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.