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Psalm 85

¹Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
²Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
³Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
⁴Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
⁵Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
⁶Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
⁷Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
⁸I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
⁹Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
¹²Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
¹³Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

²⁵And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
²⁶The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
²⁷And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
²⁸This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
²⁹Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
³⁰And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
³¹And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
³²And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
³³Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
³⁴Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
³⁵And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
³⁶And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
³⁷And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
³⁸And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
³⁹And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
⁴⁰Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

²³All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
²⁴Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.
²⁵Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
²⁶For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
²⁷If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
²⁸But if any man say unto you, this is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:
²⁹Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?
³⁰For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
³¹Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
³²Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
³³Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

11Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.