Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

90 LORD, You have been our habitation from generation to generation.

² Before the mountains were made (and You had formed the Earth and the world), even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³ You turn man to contrition. Again, You say, “Return, you sons of Adam.”

⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵ You have overflowed them. They are asleep. In the morning, they grow like the grass.

⁶ In the morning it flourishes and grows. In the evening, it is cut down and withers.

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger; and by Your wrath are we troubled.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, and our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.

⁹ For all our days have passed away in Your anger. We have spent our years as a thought.

¹⁰ The time of our life is threescore years and ten (and if they be of strength, fourscore years). Yet, their strength is but labor and sorrow; for it is cut off quickly and we flee away.

¹¹ Who knows the power of Your wrath? For according to Your fear is Your anger.

¹² Teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

7 Moreover the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:

² “Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: ‘An end has come to the land of Israel. The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

³ ‘Now has the end come upon you. And I will send My wrath upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will lay all your abominations upon you.

⁴ ‘My Eye shall not spare you, nor will I have pity. But I will lay your ways upon you. And your abomination shall be in the midst of you. And you shall know that I am the LORD.’

⁵ “Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, a disaster! A singular disaster has come!

⁶ ‘An end has come! The end has come! It watched for you. Behold, it has come.

⁷ ‘Doom has come to you who dwell in the land! The time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the joyful shout of the mountains.

⁸ ‘Now I will shortly pour out My wrath upon you and fulfill My anger upon you. I will judge you according to your ways and will lay all your abominations upon you.

⁹ ‘My Eye shall not spare you, nor will I have pity. But I will lay upon you according to your ways. And your abominations shall be in the midst of you. And you shall know that I, the LORD, strike.

⁸ And the fourth angel poured out his vial on the Sun. And it was given to him to torment man with the heat of fire.

⁹ And man boiled in great heat and blasphemed the Name of God, Who has power over these plagues. And they did not repent, to give Him glory.

¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and the kingdom grew dark. And they gnawed their tongues for sorrow.

¹¹ And blasphemed the God of Heaven for their pains, and for their sores, and did not repent of their works.

¹² And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates. And the water thereof dried up, so the way of the Kings of the East would be prepared.

¹³ And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

¹⁴ For they are the spirits of demons, working miracles to go to the kings of the Earth; and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle on that great Day of God Almighty.

¹⁵ “Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and man sees his filthiness.”

¹⁶ And they gathered together into a place called ‘Armageddon’ in Hebrew.

¹⁷ And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. And there came a loud voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

¹⁸ And there were voices and thunderings and lightnings. And there was a great earthquake unlike any since man has been upon the Earth, such a mighty an earthquake it was.

¹⁹ And the great city was divided into three parts. And the cities of the nations fell. And God as reminded of the great Babylon; to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.

²⁰ And every isle fled away. And the mountains were not found.

²¹ And there fell great hail - the weight of a talent - out of Heaven upon man. And man blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail. For the plague thereof was exceedingly great.