Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

123 I lift up my eyes to You Who dwell in the heavens.

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

³ Have mercy on us, O LORD! Have mercy on us; for we have suffered too much contempt.

⁴ Our soul is filled too full with the mocking of the wealthy and the contempt of the proud. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David

20 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

² “Doubtless my divided thoughts cause me to answer, and therefore I hurry.

³ “I have heard the correction of my reproach. Therefore, the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

⁴ “Do you not know this from old, since God placed man upon the Earth,

⁵ “that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and that the joy of the hypocrites is but a moment?

⁶ “Though his pride mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,

⁷ “yet shall he perish forever like his dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

⁸ “He shall flee away as a dream and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night,

⁹ “so that the eye which had seen him shall do so no more and his place shall see him no more.

¹⁰ “His children shall flatter the poor, and his hands shall restore his substance.

¹¹ “His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

¹⁶ For we did not follow cunningly-devised fables when we opened to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we saw His majesty with our own eyes.

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

¹⁸ And this voice we heard when it came from Heaven, being with Him on the Holy Mount.

¹⁹ We also have the enduring Word of the Prophets—to which you do well to pay attention, as to a light that shines in a dark place—until the Day dawns and the Day Star arise in your hearts.

²⁰ So that you first know this: that no Prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.

²¹ For the Prophecy did not come by the will of man. But holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.