Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees.

123 Unto thee do 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, as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes [are directed] to Jehovah our God, until he be gracious unto us.

³ Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

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

20 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

² Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

³ I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

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

⁵ The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

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

⁷ Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

⁸ He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

⁹ The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

¹⁰ His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

¹¹ His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹⁶ For we have not made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but having been eyewitnesses of *his* majesty.

¹⁷ For he received from God [the] Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom *I* have found my delight;

¹⁸ and this voice *we* heard uttered from heaven, being with him on the holy mountain.

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word [made] surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until [the] day dawn and [the] morning star arise in your hearts;

²⁰ knowing this first, that [the scope of] no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

²¹ for prophecy was not ever uttered by [the] will of man, but holy men of God spake under the power of [the] Holy Spirit.