Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

96 Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD all the Earth!

² Sing to the LORD! Praise His Name! Declare His salvation from day to day.

³ Declare His Glory among all nations, His wonders among all people.

⁴ For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵ For all the gods of the people are idols. But the LORD made the heavens.

⁶ Strength and glory are before Him. Power and beauty are in His Sanctuary.

⁷ Give to the LORD, you families of the people! Give to the LORD glory and power!

⁸ Give to the LORD the glory of His Name. Bring an offering and enter into His courts.

⁹ Worship the LORD in the glorious Sanctuary. Tremble before Him, all the Earth.

¹⁰ Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!” Surely, the world shall be stable and not move; and He shall judge the people in righteousness.

¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and let the Earth be glad! Let the sea roar, and all that therein is.

¹² Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it! Let all the trees of the wood then rejoice

¹³ before the LORD. For He comes. For He comes to judge the Earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the people in His truth.

¹⁴ “When you shall come to the land which the LORD your God gives you and shall possess it and dwell in it, if thou say, ‘I will set a king over me, just as all the nations that are around me’,

¹⁵ “you shall make him king over you whom the LORD your God shall choose. From among your brothers shall you make a king over yourselves. You shall not set a stranger over yourself who is not your brother.

¹⁶ “In any case, he shall not prepare many horses for himself, nor bring the people back to Egypt to increase the number of horses, seeing the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall never go that way again’.

¹⁷ “Nor shall he take many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away. Nor shall he gather much silver and gold for himself.

¹⁸ “And when he shall sit upon the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write himself this Law, repeated in a book by the Priest of the Levites.

¹⁹ “And it shall be with him. And he shall read it all days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this Law and to do these Ordinances,

²⁰ “so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers’ and that he does not turn to the right hand or to the left from the Commandment, so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom (he and his sons) in the midst of Israel.”

5 I encourage the elders among you. I am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and also a partaker of the Glory that shall be revealed.

² Feed the flock of God which depends on you. Care for it - not by compulsion, but voluntarily; not greedily, but eagerly;

³ not as though you were Lords over God’s estate, but that you may be examples to the flock.

⁴ And when that chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an incorruptible crown of Glory.

⁵ Likewise, you younger people, submit yourselves to the elders. And everyone submit yourselves one to another. Clothe yourselves inwardly in humility. For “God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.”