Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

87 By sons of Korah. -- A Psalm, a song. His foundation [is] in holy mountains.

² Jehovah is loving the gates of Zion Above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

³ Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.

⁴ I mention Rahab and Babel to those knowing Me, Lo, Philistia, and Tyre, with Cush! This [one] was born there.

⁵ And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

⁶ Jehovah doth recount in the describing of the peoples, `This [one] was born there.' Selah.

⁷ Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains [are] in Thee!

3 For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

² Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance -- Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.

³ And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.

⁴ And also, what [are] ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.

⁵ In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

⁶ And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.

⁷ Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,

⁸ And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto a nation far off, for Jehovah hath spoken.

¹² Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice -- exulting;

¹⁴ if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy [are ye], because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;

¹⁵ for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

¹⁷ because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?

¹⁸ And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner -- where shall he appear?

¹⁹ so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.