Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

9 To the Overseer, `On the Death of Labben.' -- A Psalm of David. I confess, O Jehovah, with all my heart, I recount all Thy wonders,

² I rejoice and exult in Thee, I praise Thy Name, O Most High.

³ In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.

⁴ For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked nations, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Their name Thou hast blotted out to the age and for ever.

⁶ O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

⁷ And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne.

⁸ And He judgeth the world in righteousness, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.

⁹ And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

¹⁰ They trust in Thee who do know Thy name, For Thou hast not forsaken Those seeking Thee, O Jehovah.

¹¹ Sing ye praise to Jehovah, inhabiting Zion, Declare ye among the peoples His acts,

¹² For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴ So that I recount all Thy praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Thy salvation.

2 And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a man, and in his hand a measuring line.

² And I say, `Whither are thou going?' And he saith unto me, `To measure Jerusalem, to see how much [is] its breadth, and how much its length.'

³ And lo, the messenger who is speaking with me is going out, and another messenger is going out to meet him,

⁴ and he saith unto him, `Run, speak unto this young man, saying: Unwalled villages inhabit doth Jerusalem, From the abundance of man and beast in her midst.

⁵ And I -- I am to her -- an affirmation of Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And for honour I am in her midst.

5 And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a flying roll.

² And he saith unto me, `What art thou seeing?' And I say, `I am seeing a flying roll, its length twenty by the cubit, and its breadth ten by the cubit.'

³ And he saith unto me, `This [is] the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

⁴ `I have brought it out -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts -- and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

¹² And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

¹³ and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;

¹⁴ and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

¹⁵ see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

¹⁶ always rejoice ye;

¹⁷ continually pray ye;

¹⁸ in every thing give thanks, for this [is] the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.