Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

34 I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

² My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof and be glad.

³ O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.

⁴ I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

⁵ They looked unto Him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed.

⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷ The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.

⁸ O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in Him!

⁹ O fear the Lord, ye His saints! For them that fear Him suffer no want.

¹⁰ The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

¹¹ Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

¹² What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

¹⁴ Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.

¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

¹⁷ The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸ The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

²⁰ He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.

²¹ Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

²² The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants, and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate.

⁵ And the Lord God of hosts is He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like a flood, and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt.

⁶ It is He that buildeth His spheres in the heaven, and hath founded His troop on the earth. He that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth—the Lord is His name.

⁷ “Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel?” saith the Lord. “Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? And the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

⁸ Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” saith the Lord.

⁹ “For lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as corn is sifted in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

¹⁰ All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘The evil shall not overtake nor come before us.’

¹¹ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old,

¹² that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen that are called by My name,” saith the Lord that doeth this.

¹³ “Behold, the days come,” saith the Lord, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captives of My people of Israel, and they shall build the wasted cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

¹⁵ And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them,” saith the Lord thy God.

¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended it, but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as would be perfect, be thus minded; and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

¹⁶ Nevertheless, however much we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

¹⁷ Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark those who so walk, as ye have us for an example.

¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even with weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

¹⁹ Their end is destruction, their God is their belly, and their glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

²⁰ For our abiding is in Heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹ who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.

4 Therefore, my dearly beloved and longedfor brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.