Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

123 Unto Thee I lift up mine eyes, O Thou that dwellest in the heavens.

² Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until He has mercy upon us.

³ Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

20 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said:

² “Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

³ I have heard the rebuke of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

⁴ Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

⁶ Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

⁷ yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

⁹ The eye also which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

¹⁰ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

¹¹ His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹⁶ For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

¹⁷ For He received from God the Father honor and glory when there came such a voice to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

¹⁸ And this voice, which came from Heaven, we heard when we were with Him on the holy mount.

¹⁹ We have also a more sure word of prophecy, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts,

²⁰ knowing this first: that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.

²¹ For the prophecy came not in olden times by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.