Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

27 The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

² When the wicked—even my enemies—and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

³ Though an army encamped against me, my heart shall not be afraid. Though war is raised against me, I will trust in this.

⁴ One thing have I desired of the LORD, that I will require: That I may dwell in the House of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD and to visit His Temple.

⁵ For in the time of trouble, He shall hide me in His Tabernacle. In the secret place of His pavilion, He shall hide me and set me up upon a rock.

⁶ And now, He shall lift up my head above my enemies all around me. Therefore, I will offer sacrifices of joy in His Tabernacle. I will sing and praise the LORD.

⁷ Hear my voice, O LORD, when I cry. Have mercy, also, upon me and hear me.

⁸ When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart answered You, “O LORD, I will seek Your face.”

⁹ Do not hide, therefore, Your face from me, nor cast Your servant away in displeasure. You have been my succor; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹⁰ Though my father and my mother should forsake me, yet the LORD will gather me up.

¹¹ Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a right path, because of my enemies.

¹² Do not give me to the lust of my adversaries. For there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak cruelly.

¹³ I should have fainted, except I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

¹⁴ Hope in the LORD. Be strong, and He shall comfort Your heart; and trust in the LORD. A Psalm of David.

² On that day, the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious. And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and pleasant for those of Israel who have escaped.

³ Then he who shall be left in Zion, and he who shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy. Everyone in Jerusalem shall be written among the living

⁴ when the LORD shall wash the filthiness of the daughters of Zion and purge the blood of Jerusalem out of its midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

⁵ And the LORD shall create upon every place of Mount Zion, and upon its assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For upon all the Glory shall be a defense.

⁶ And a covering shall be for shade from the heat during the day, and a place of refuge and a shelter from the storm and from the rain.

11 Now the Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the Word of God.

² And when Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision examined him,

³ saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and have eaten with them.”

⁴ Then Peter began expounding it in order to them, saying,

⁵ “I was in the city of Joppa, praying. And while in a trance, I saw this vision: a certain vessel, coming down as a great sheet, let down from Heaven by the four corners. And it came to me.

⁶ “When I had fastened my eyes on it, I considered, and saw four-footed beasts of the Earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and birds of the heaven.

⁷ “Also I heard a voice, saying to me, ‘Arise, Peter. Kill and eat.’

⁸ “And I said, ‘Absolutely not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

⁹ “But the voice answered me a second time from the sky, ‘The things that God has purified, do not make common.’

¹⁰ “And this was done three times, and all were taken up again into the sky.

¹¹ “Then behold, immediately there were three men who had already come to the house where I was, sent to me from Caesarea.

¹² “And the Spirit said to me that I should go with them, without doubting. Moreover, these six brothers came with me. And we entered into the man’s house.

¹³ “And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house, who stood and said to him, ‘Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter.

¹⁴ ‘He shall speak words to you, whereby both you and all your house shall be saved.’

¹⁵ “And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, just as upon us at the beginning.

¹⁶ “Then I remembered the Word of the Lord. How He said, ‘John baptized with water. But you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.’

¹⁷ “If, then, God gave them a similar gift to the one He gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?”

¹⁸ When they heard these things, they kept silent, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted repentance unto life to the Gentiles.”