Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.

² For he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

³ ¶ Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in the place of his holiness?

⁴ He that has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not taken my name in vain, nor sworn deceitfully.

⁵ He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his saving health.

⁶ This is the generation of those that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

⁷ ¶ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and lift yourselves up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

⁸ Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

⁹ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; lift yourselves up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

¹⁰ Who is this King of glory? The LORD of the hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

⁸ Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

⁹ ¶ For the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish from the first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, who has glorified thee.

¹⁰ And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall serve thee; for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my good favour I shall have mercy on thee.

¹¹ Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought unto thee, and their kings guided.

¹² For the people or the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish and shall be utterly wasted.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will honour the place of my feet.

¹⁴ The sons also of those that afflicted thee shall come humbled unto thee; and at the steps of thy feet all those that despised thee shall bow themselves down; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ ¶ Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will place thee in eternal glory, in joy from generation to generation.

¹⁶ Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of the kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

1 ¶ Forasmuch as many have attempted to set forth in order the history of those things which among us have been most certain,

² even as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning taught us and thus were ministers of the word,

³ it seemed good also to me, after having understood all the things from the beginning with great diligence, to write them unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

⁴ that thou mightest know the security of those things in which thou hast been instructed.