Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Gracious and merciful [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

⁹ Good [is] Jehovah to all, And His mercies [are] over all His works.

¹⁰ Confess Thee O Jehovah, do all Thy works, And Thy saints do bless Thee.

¹¹ The honour of Thy kingdom they tell, And [of] Thy might they speak,

¹² To make known to sons of men His mighty acts, The honour of the majesty of His kingdom.

¹³ Thy kingdom [is] a kingdom of all ages, And Thy dominion [is] in all generations.

¹⁴ Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

4 And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,

² and he saith unto me, `What art thou seeing?' And I say, `I have looked, and lo, a candlestick of gold -- all of it, and its bowl [is] on its top, and its seven lamps [are] upon it, and twice seven pipes [are] to the lights that [are] on its top,

³ and two olive-trees [are] by it, one on the right of the bowl, and one on its left.'

⁴ And I answer and speak unto the messenger who is speaking with me, saying, `What [are] these, my lord?'

⁵ And the messenger who is speaking with me answereth and saith unto me, `Hast thou not known what these [are]?' And I say, `No, my lord.'

⁶ And he answereth and speaketh unto me, saying: `This [is] a word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying: Not by a force, nor by power, But -- by My Spirit, said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁷ Who [art] thou, O great mountain Before Zerubbabel -- for a plain! And he hath brought forth the top-stone, Cries of Grace, grace -- [are] to it.'

²¹ In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, `I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.

²² `All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal [Him].'

²³ And having turned unto the disciples, he said, by themselves, `Happy the eyes that are perceiving what ye perceive;

²⁴ for I say to you, that many prophets and kings did wish to see what ye perceive, and did not see, and to hear what ye hear, and did not hear.'