Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

TZADDI.

¹³⁷ ¶ Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

¹³⁸ Thou hast commanded righteousness, which consists of thy testimonies and thy truth.

¹³⁹ ¶ My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten thy words.

¹⁴⁰ ¶ Thy word is very pure; therefore thy slave loves it.

¹⁴¹ ¶ I am small and despised; yet I have not forgotten thy precepts.

¹⁴² ¶ Thy righteousness is eternal righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

¹⁴³ ¶ Trouble and anguish found me; but thy commandments were my delights.

¹⁴⁴ Thy testimonies are eternal righteousness; give me understanding, and I shall live.

⁵ ¶ Behold among the Gentiles and regard and wonder marvelously, for a work shall be done in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

⁶ For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which march through the breadth of the earth to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.

⁷ She is terrible and dreadful: from her herself shall go forth their rights and their grandeur.

⁸ Their horses shall be swifter than tigers and are sharper than the evening wolves, and their horsemen shall multiply themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as eagles that hasten to eat.

⁹ All of her shall come for the prey, before their faces an east wind, and they shall gather the captives as the sand.

¹⁰ And he shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto him, he shall deride every fortress and shall heap dust and take it.

¹¹ Then he shall become arrogant against God, and he shall pass ahead and shall be found guilty, imputing this his power unto his god.

¹² ¶ Art thou not from the beginning, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die, O LORD, thou hast ordained him for judgment, and thou hast established him strong for chastisement.

¹³ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity: why dost thou look upon those that deal treacherously and hold thy tongue when the wicked devour the man that is more righteous than he?

¹⁴ And dost make men as the fishes of the sea, as reptiles that have no lord?

¹⁵ He shall take up all of them with his hook; he shall catch them in his net and gather them in his drag: therefore, he shall rejoice and be glad.

¹⁶ Therefore, he shall sacrifice unto his net and burn incense unto his drag because by them his portion is fat, and his food plenteous.

¹⁷ Shall he therefore empty his net, or have pity to stop slaying Gentiles continually?

1 ¶ Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

² Grace and peace be multiplied unto you in the knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus,

³ as all things that pertain to life and to godliness are given us of his divine power, through the knowledge of him that has called us by his glory and virtue,

⁴ whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be made participants of the divine nature, having fled the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁵ ¶ Ye also, giving all diligence to the same, show forth virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge;

⁶ and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God;

⁷ and in fear of God, brotherly love; and in brotherly love, charity.

⁸ For if these things are in you and abound, they shall not let you be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But he that lacks these things is blind and walks feeling the way with his hand, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall.

¹¹ Because in this manner the entrance shall be abundantly administered unto you in the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.