Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

144 Blessed be the Lord my strength, who teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight;

² my goodness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and He in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me.

³ Lord, what is man that Thou takest notice of him? Or the son of man that Thou makest account of him?

⁴ Man is like vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth 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; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strangers,

⁸ whose mouth speaketh vanity and whose 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 will I sing praises unto Thee.

¹⁰ It is He that giveth salvation unto kings, who delivereth David His servant from the hurtful sword.

¹¹ Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth speaketh vanity and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood,

¹² that our sons may be as plants full grown in their youth, that our daughters may be as cornerstones, 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 labor, that there be no breaking in, nor going out, that there be no complaining in our streets.

¹⁵ Happy is that people for whom such is the case; yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

27 In that day the Lord with His sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

² In that day sing ye unto her, “A vineyard of red wine!

³ I, the Lord, do keep it; I will water it every moment. Lest any hurt 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 go through them; I would burn them together.

⁵ Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.”

⁶ He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.

¹⁸ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation,

¹⁹ to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.

²⁰ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were beseeching you by us: we pray you on Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

²¹ For He hath made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.