Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

24 Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

² In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

³ Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

⁴ Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

⁵ Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

⁶ Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.

⁷ The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

⁸ The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.

⁹ He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹ For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.

¹² Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen.

¹³ His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

¹⁴ The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

¹⁵ My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

¹⁶ Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.

¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.

¹⁸ See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

¹⁹ Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

²⁰ Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.

²¹ The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.

²² Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.

¹⁸ As I live, (saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

¹⁹ Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.

²⁰ Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.

²¹ Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

²² Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.

²³ They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

²⁵ The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.

²⁶ And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.

²⁷ And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou dismayed, O Israel: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out of the land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and prosper: and there shall be none to terrify him.

²⁸ And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.

⁵ And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me: Write, for these words are most faithful and true.

⁶ And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the end. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely.

⁷ He that shall overcome shall possess these things, and I will be his God; and he shall be my son.

⁸ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

⁹ And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come, and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

¹⁰ And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

¹¹ Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal.

¹² And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

¹³ On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And he that spoke with me, had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof, and the wall.

¹⁶ And the city lieth in a foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs, and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.

¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.

¹⁸ And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold, like to clear glass.

¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third, a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald:

²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh, chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a chrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.

²¹ And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

²² And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty is the temple thereof, and the Lamb.

²³ And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

²⁴ And the nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into it.

²⁵ And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.

²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

²⁷ There shall not enter into it any thing defiled, or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb.