Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

95 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

² Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

³ For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

⁵ The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

17 And it came to pass as David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah under curtains.

² And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.

³ And it came to pass that night that the word of God came to Nathan saying,

⁴ Go and say to David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in;

⁵ for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day; but I have been from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another].

⁶ In all my going about with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why build ye me not a house of cedars?

⁷ And now, thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I took thee from the pasture-grounds, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel;

⁸ and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name, like unto the name of the great men that are on the earth.

⁹ And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and be disturbed no more; neither shall the sons of wickedness waste them any more, as formerly,

¹⁰ and since the days that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. And I will subdue all thine enemies; and I tell thee that Jehovah will build thee a house.

¹¹ And it shall come to pass, when thy days are fulfilled that thou must go [to be] with thy fathers, that I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

¹² It is he who shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.

¹³ I will be his father, and he shall be my son; and I will not take away my mercy from him, as I took it from him that was before thee;

¹⁴ and I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever; and his throne shall be established for ever.

¹⁵ According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

22 And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

² In the midst of its street, and of the river, on this side and on that side, [the] tree of life, producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit; and the leaves of the tree for healing of the nations.

³ And no curse shall be any more; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him,

⁴ and they shall see his face; and his name [is] on their foreheads.

⁵ And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of [the] sun; for [the] Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.

⁶ And he said to me, These words [are] faithful and true; and [the] Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to shew to his bondmen the things which must soon come to pass.

⁷ And behold, I come quickly. Blessed [is] he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.

⁸ And I, John, [was] he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to do homage before the feet of the angel who shewed me these things.

⁹ And he says to me, See [thou do it] not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and [the fellow-bondman] of thy brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Do homage to God.