Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ ¶ How amiable are thy habitations, O LORD of the hosts!

² My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.

³ Even the sparrow has found a house and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young upon thine altars, O LORD of the hosts, my King and my God.

⁴ Happy are those that dwell in thy house; they shall continually praise thee. Selah.

⁵ Happy is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are thy ways,

⁶ who passing through the valley of Baca, shall make it a well; the rain also shall fill the pools.

⁷ They go forth in a great multitude; and in order, they shall see God in Zion.

¹⁷ Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come,

¹⁸ and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we destroyed! We are greatly confounded. Why have we forsaken the land? Why have our dwellings cast us out?

²⁰ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and each one her neighbour lamentation.

²¹ For death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets.

²² Speak, Thus hath the LORD said, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvestman, and there shall be none to gather them.

²³ ¶ Thus hath the LORD said, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

²⁴ but let him that glories glory in this, that he understands me and knows me, that I am the LORD who does mercy, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, said the LORD.

²⁵ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will visit all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised:

²⁶ Egypt and Judah and Edom and the sons of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

¹⁰ ¶ But thou hast fully known my doctrine, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

¹¹ persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, persecutions I have endured, and the Lord delivered me out of them all.

¹² And all that desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall also suffer persecution.

¹³ But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁴ But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and in that which has been entrusted unto thee, knowing of whom thou hast learned them,

¹⁵ and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.