Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of praise. Of David.

145 I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

² Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

³ Great is Jehovah, and exceedingly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁴ One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

⁵ I will speak of the glorious splendour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

⁶ And they shall tell of the might of thy terrible acts; and thy great deeds will I declare.

⁷ They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

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

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

¹⁴ And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile.

¹⁵ Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

2 He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.

² For Jehovah hath brought again the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel; for the wasters have wasted them, and marred their vine-branches.

13 This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.

² I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.

³ Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,

⁴ for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)