Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

95 O come, let us sing unto the Lord! Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

² Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms.

³ For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

⁴ In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the strength of the hills is His also.

⁵ The sea is His, and He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.

⁶ O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

⁷ For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if ye will hear His voice:

¹³ And the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke unto him, saying, “Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth. Let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.”

¹⁴ And Micaiah said, “As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak.”

¹⁵ So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, “Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” And he answered him, “Go, and prosper, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.”

¹⁶ And the king said unto him, “How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?”

¹⁷ And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let them return every man to his house in peace.’”

¹⁸ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?”

¹⁹ And Micaiah said, “Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.

²⁰ And the Lord said, ‘Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?’ And one said in this manner, and another said in that manner.

²¹ And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will persuade him.’

²² And the Lord said unto him, ‘Wherewith?’ And he said, ‘Iwill go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And He said, ‘Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also. Go forth, and do so.’

²³ Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.

14 And I looked and lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father’s name written in their foreheads.

² And I heard a voice from Heaven as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder, and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.

³ And they sang, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living beings and the elders; and no man could learn that song, except the hundred and forty and four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.

⁴ These are they that were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

⁵ And in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before the throne of God.

⁶ And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred, and tongue and people,

⁷ saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His Judgment is come. Worship Him that made heaven and earth, and the sea and the fountains of waters.”

⁸ And there followed another angel, saying, “Babylon is fallen! Fallen is that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”

⁹ And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand,

¹⁰ the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out unmixed into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”