Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Blessed be the LORD my strength, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war:

² My mercy and my fortress; my high tower and my deliverer; my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdues my people under me.

³ LORD, what is man that thou knowest him? or the son of man, that thou esteemeth him?

⁴ Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

⁵ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶ Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows and destroy them.

⁷ Send thine hand from above; redeem me and deliver me out of many waters, from the hand of the strange sons,

⁸ whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹ ¶ I will sing a new song unto thee, O God; upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises unto thee.

¹⁰ Thou, he who gives salvation unto kings, who redeems David his slave from the evil sword.

¹¹ Redeem me, and save me from the hand of strange sons, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

¹² That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace;

¹³ that our garners may be full, affording all manner of store; that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets;

¹⁴ that our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in nor going out; that there be no shout of alarm in our streets.

¹⁵ Blessed is that people, that is in such a case; yea, blessed is that people, whose God is the LORD.

27 ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall visit punishment upon leviathan the fleeing serpent, and upon leviathan that serpent of double vision; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

² In that day sing ye unto the vineyard of the red wine.

³ I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest the enemy visit it, I will keep it night and day.

⁴ Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would tread them down, I would burn them together.

⁵ Or who shall take hold of my strength? Make peace with me, yea, make peace with me.

⁶ Days shall come when Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled with fruit.

¹⁷ Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.

¹⁸ And all this by God, who reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

¹⁹ for certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them and having placed in us the word of reconciliation.

²⁰ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did exhort you by us; we beseech you in Christ’s name, be ye reconciled to God.

²¹ For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.