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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.

Psalm 98

¹O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
²The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
³He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
⁴Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
⁵Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
⁶With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.
⁷Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
⁸Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
⁹Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

3Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
²The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
³The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
⁴Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
⁵Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
⁶And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
⁷And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
⁸Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
⁹Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
¹⁰Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
¹¹Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
¹²All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
¹³Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
¹⁴Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
¹⁵There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
¹⁶Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
¹⁷Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
¹⁸Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
¹⁹There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

9I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
²That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
³For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
⁴Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
⁵Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
¹⁸Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
²¹Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
²³And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
²⁴Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
³¹But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
³³As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.