Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Cheth

⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy.

Teth

⁹ The LORD is good to all; and his tender mercies shine over all his works.

Jod

¹⁰ ¶ Let all thy works praise thee, O LORD, and thy merciful ones bless thee.

Caph

¹¹ They speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power,

Lamed

¹² to make known to the sons of Adam his mighty acts and the glory of the magnificence of his kingdom.

Mem

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

Samech

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all that fall and raises up all those that are oppressed.

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 said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked and behold a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps upon the lampstand, and seven pipes for the lamps, which are upon the top thereof:

³ and two olive trees over it, one upon the right hand side of the bowl and the other upon the left hand side thereof.

⁴ So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What is this, my lord?

⁵ Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Dost thou not know what this is? And I said, No, my lord.

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

⁷ Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? Thou shalt be reduced to a plain; and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

²¹ In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes; even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

²² All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no one knows who the Son is, but the Father, and who the Father is, but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

²³ And he turned him unto his disciples and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see,

²⁴ for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see those things which ye see and did not see them and to hear those things which ye hear and did not hear them.