Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

46 Unto the end, for the sons of Core.

² O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of Joy,

³ For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

⁴ He hath subdued the people under us; and the nations under our feet.

⁵ He hath chosen for us his inheritance the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

⁶ God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

⁷ Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye.

⁸ For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.

⁹ God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

¹⁰ The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

¹² And the messenger that went to call Micheas, said to him: Behold the words of all the prophets with one mouth declare good to the king: I beseech thee therefore let not thy word disagree with them, and speak thou also good success.

¹³ And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God shall say to me, that will I speak.

¹⁴ So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go up, for all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be delivered into your hands.

¹⁵ And the king said: I adjure thee again and again to say nothing but the truth to me, in the name of the Lord.

¹⁶ Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters: let every man return to his own house in peace.

¹⁷ And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee that this man would not prophesy me any good, but evil?

¹⁸ Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left.

¹⁹ And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in this manner, and another otherwise:

²⁰ There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou deceive him?

²¹ And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and shalt prevail: go out, and do so.

²² Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a spirit of lying in the mouth of all thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.

²³ It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

²⁴ For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

²⁵ Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies, every year with the blood of others:

²⁶ For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself.

²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

²⁸ So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many; the second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.