Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

¹ ¶ In Judah is God known; his name is great in Israel.

² In Salem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling place in Zion.

³ There he broke the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the war. Selah.

⁴ Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

⁵ The stouthearted are spoiled; they have slept their sleep; and nothing was found in the hands of the men of might.

⁶ At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

⁷ ¶ Thou, even thou, art to be feared, and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

⁸ From the heavens thou didst cause judgment to be heard; the earth feared and was still,

⁹ when thou didst arise unto judgment, O God, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man shall cause praise to come unto thee; the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

¹¹ Vow and pay unto the LORD your God; let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

¹² He shall cut off the spirit of princes; he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

¹⁷ For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for the stones iron; I will also put peace in the place of thy government, and righteousness in the place of thine oppressors.

¹⁸ Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Saving Health and thy gates Praise.

¹⁹ The sun shall no longer be thy light by day; nor shall the moon give light unto thee for brightness; but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory.

²⁰ Thy sun shall set no more; neither shall thy moon wane: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

²¹ And thy people shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever; they shall be shoots of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

²² The small one shall be as a thousand; the youngest as a strong nation; I the LORD will hasten it in its time.

²⁵ Therefore, leaving the lie, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.

²⁶ Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

²⁷ neither give place to the devil.

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for edification, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with which ye are sealed for the day of redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

³² and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.

5 ¶ Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children

² and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.