Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer upon, Do not destroy, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

¹ ¶ Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks, for that thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.

² When I shall receive the congregation, I will judge uprightly.

³ The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I bore up the pillars of it. Selah.

⁴ I said unto the fools, Do not deal foolishly and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn:

⁵ Do not lift up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck.

⁶ ¶ For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert.

⁷ But God is the judge; he puts down one and sets up another.

⁸ For the cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof, shall wring out and swallow up all the wicked of the earth.

⁹ But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ And I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

1 ¶ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

² ¶ God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.

³ The LORD is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the LORD whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

⁴ He reprehends the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers; Bashan was destroyed, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon was destroyed.

⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, and the world and all that dwell therein.

⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

⁷ The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those that trust in him.

⁸ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of his place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

⁹ ¶ What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end; he will not hold back the tribulation the second time.

¹⁰ For while they are entwined together as thorns, and while the drunkards shall be drinking, they shall be devoured as stubble full of dryness.

¹¹ He has come out of thee that has imagined evil against the LORD, a counsellor of Belial.

¹² Thus hath the LORD said: For much rest that they have, and though they are many, yet thus shall they be cut down, and he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

¹³ For now I will break his yoke from off thee and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints; here are those that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

¹³ ¶ And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on; Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.

¹⁴ And I looked, and, behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle.

¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that was seated on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle and reap; for the hour is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is dry.

¹⁶ And he that was seated on the cloud thrust in his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.

¹⁷ And another angel came out of the temple which is in the heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

¹⁹ And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

²⁰ And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the bits of the horses, for a thousand six hundred furlongs.