Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

95 Come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us sing aloud to the Rock of our Salvation!

² Let us come before His Face with praise. Let us sing loud to Him with Psalms.

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

⁴ in Whose hand are the deep places of the Earth, and the heights of the mountains are His.

⁵ The sea belongs to Him, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down, and 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 you will hear His voice,

¹³ And the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Behold, now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one accord. Please let your word, therefore, be like the word of one of them, and speak good.

¹⁴ And Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, whatever the LORD says to me, that will I speak.”

¹⁵ So he came to the king, and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we leave off?” And he answered him, “Go up, and prosper. And the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.”

¹⁶ And the king said to him, “How often shall I charge you to tell me nothing but that which is true in the Name of the LORD?”

¹⁷ Then he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that had no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master. Let every man return to his house in peace.’”

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

¹⁹ Again he said, “Hear, therefore, the Word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sit on His throne. And all the host of Heaven stood around Him on His right and on His left.

²⁰ “And the LORD said, ‘Who shall entice Ahab, so that he may go and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ And one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner.

²¹ “Then a spirit came forth and stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘With what?’

²² “And he said, ‘I will go out and be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You shall entice and shall also prevail. Go forth and do so.’

²³ “Now, therefore, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these, your prophets. And the LORD has appointed misery upon you.”

14 Then I looked. And lo, a Lamb stood on mount Zion; and with him 144,000, having his Father’s Name written in their foreheads.

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

³ And they sang (as it were) a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts and the elders. And no one could learn that song except the 144,000 who were bought from the Earth.

⁴ These are those who are not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These are bought from man, being the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

⁵ And in their mouths was found no deceit. For they are without spot before the throne of God.

⁶ Then I saw another angel fly in the midst of Heaven - having an everlasting Gospel to preach to those who dwell on the Earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people -

⁷ saying with a loud voice, “Fear God! And give glory to Him! For the hour of His judgment has come! And worship Him who made Heaven and Earth and the sea and the fountains of waters!”

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

⁹ And a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worship the beast and his image - and receives his mark on his forehead, or on his hand -

¹⁰ the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God; indeed, of the pure wine which is poured into the cup of His wrath! And he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels, and before the Lamb!

¹¹ “And the smoke of their torment shall ascend evermore! And they shall have no rest, day nor night, who worship the beast and his name!”