Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
90 LORD, You have been our habitation from generation to generation.
2 Before the mountains were made (and You had formed the Earth and the world), even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
3 You turn man to contrition. Again, You say, “Return, you sons of Adam.”
4 For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 You have overflowed them. They are asleep. In the morning, they grow like the grass.
6 In the morning it flourishes and grows. In the evening, it is cut down and withers.
7 For we are consumed by Your anger; and by Your wrath are we troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, and our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
9 For all our days have passed away in Your anger. We have spent our years as a thought.
10 The time of our life is threescore years and ten (and if they be of strength, fourscore years). Yet, their strength is but labor and sorrow; for it is cut off quickly and we flee away.
11 Who knows the power of Your wrath? For according to Your fear is Your anger.
12 Teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
6 Again, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:
2 “Son of man, set your face towards the mountains of Israel. And prophesy against them,
3 “and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will 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 broken. And I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 “And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
6 “In all your dwelling places, the cities shall be desolate and the high places shall be laid waste, so that your altars shall be made waste, and desolate, and your idols shall be broken, and cease, and your images of the Sun shall be cut in pieces and your works shall be abolished.
7 “And the slain shall fall in the midst of you. And you shall know that I am the LORD.
8 “Yet, I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who shall escape the sword among the nations when you shall be scattered through the countries.
9 “And those of you who escape shall remember Me among the nations where they shall be in captivity, because I am grieved for their whorish hearts which have departed from Me, and for their eyes which have gone a whoring after their idols. And they shall be displeased in themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
10 “And they shall know that I am the LORD, that I have not said in vain that I would bring this misery upon them.”
11 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Strike with your hand, and stretch forth with your foot, and say, ‘Alas,’ for all the wicked abominations of the House of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
12 “He who is far away shall die of pestilence. And he who is near shall fall by the sword. And he who remains and is besieged shall die by famine. Thus will I accomplish My wrath upon them.
13 “Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols, all around 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 savor to all their idols).
14 “So will I stretch My Hand upon them and make the land waste and desolate, from the wilderness to 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 seven vials of the wrath of God upon the Earth!”
2 And the first went and poured out his vial upon the Earth. And there fell an evil and grievous sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast, and upon those who worshipped his image.
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And it became like the blood of a dead man. And every living thing in the sea died.
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters. And they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, “Lord, You are just - Who are, and Who was - and Holy, because You have judged these things.
6 For they shed the blood of the saints and Prophets. And therefore have you given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.”
7 And I heard another say from the Sanctuary, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”
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