Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

¹ ¶ Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

³ Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.

⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.

⁵ Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.

⁶ In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

⁷ ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹ For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.

¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹ Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.

¹² ¶ Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

6 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

² Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them,

³ and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus hath the Lord GOD said to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

⁴ And your altars shall be desolate, and your images of the sun shall be destroyed, and I will cause your dead to fall before your idols.

⁵ And I will lay the dead carcasses of the sons of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

⁶ In all your provinces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate that your altars may be laid waste and condemned, and your idols shall be destroyed and shall cease, and your images of the sun shall be cut down, and your works shall be abolished.

⁷ And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

⁸ ¶ Yet I will leave a remnant that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the Gentiles when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

⁹ And those that escape of you shall remember me among the Gentiles where they shall be carried captives because I am broken because of your whorish heart, which has departed from me and because of your eyes, which went a whoring after your idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

¹⁰ And they shall know that I am the LORD and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

¹¹ ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Smite with thine hand and stamp with thy foot and say, Alas for all the abominations of the evils of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

¹² He that is far off shall die of the pestilence, and he that is near shall fall by the sword, and he that remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury in them.

¹³ Then shall ye know that I am the LORD when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet savour to all their idols.

¹⁴ So will I stretch out my hand upon them and make the land desolate, even more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

16 ¶ And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

² And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth; and an evil and grievous sore fell upon the men who had the mark of the beast and upon those who worshipped its image.

³ And the second angel poured out his vial into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died in the sea.

⁴ And the third angel poured out his vial into the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, who art and wast the Holy one because thou hast judged these things;

⁶ for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they deserve it.

⁷ And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.