Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

⁹ Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁰ All thy works shall praise thee, Jehovah, and thy saints shall bless thee.

¹¹ They shall tell of the glory of thy kingdom, and speak of thy power;

¹² To make known to the children of men his mighty acts, and the glorious splendour of his kingdom.

¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages, and thy dominion is throughout all generations.

¹⁴ Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that are bowed down.

4 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

² And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I see, and behold, a lamp-stand all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon, seven [lamps] and seven pipes to the lamps, which are upon the top thereof;

³ and two olive-trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl, and the other on the left of it.

⁴ And I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

⁵ And the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

⁶ And he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.

⁷ Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel [thou dost become] a plain; and he shall bring forth the head-stone with shoutings: Grace, grace unto it!

²¹ In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.

²² All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal [him].

²³ And having turned to the disciples privately he said, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.

²⁴ For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things which ye behold, and did not see [them]; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear [them].