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,

17 Now afterward, when David dwelt in his house, he said to Nathan the Prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar trees. But the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant remains under curtains.”

² Then Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”

³ And the same night, the Word of God came to Nathan, saying,

⁴ “Go and tell David, My servant, ‘Thus says the LORD: “You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.

⁵ “For I have dwelt in no house since the day that I brought out the children of Israel until this day. But I have been from tent to tent, and from habitation to habitation.

⁶ “Therefore, I have walked with all Israel. Have I spoken one word to any of the judges of Israel (whom I Commanded to feed My people) saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar trees?’”’

⁷ “Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, so that you would be a prince over My people Israel.

⁸ “And I have been with you wherever you have walked and have destroyed all your enemies out of your sight and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the Earth.

⁹ “Also, I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant it, so that they may dwell in their place and no longer move. Nor shall the wicked people trouble them anymore, as at the beginning

¹⁰ “and since the time that I Commanded judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Therefore, I say to you that the LORD will build you a House.

¹¹ “And when your days shall be fulfilled, to go with your fathers, then I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons, and will establish his kingdom.

¹² “He shall build Me a House. And I will establish his throne forever.

¹³ “I will be his father and he shall be my son and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

¹⁴ “But I will establish him in My House, and in My Kingdom, forever. And his throne shall be established forever.”’”

¹⁵ According to all these words and according to all this vision Nathan spoke to David.

22 And he showed me a pure river of water of life - clear as crystal - proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the Lamb.

² In the midst of the street of it - and on either side of the river - was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve kinds of fruits and gave fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree served to heal the nations.

³ And there shall no longer be any curse. But 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 shall be on their foreheads.

⁵ And there shall be no night there. And they need no lamp, nor light of the Sun. For the Lord God gives them Light. And they shall reign forevermore.

⁶ And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy Prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly be fulfilled.

⁷ “Behold, I come shortly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the Prophecy of this Book.”

⁸ And I am John, who saw and heard these things. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

⁹ But he said to me, “See that you do not do it. For I am your fellow servant; and of your brothers, the Prophets; and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Worship God.”