Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

4 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness. You have set me at liberty when I was in distress. Have mercy upon me and hear my prayer.

² O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame, loving vanity and seeking lies? Selah.

³ But know that the LORD has chosen for Himself a godly man. The LORD will hear when I call to Him.

⁴ Tremble and do not sin. Examine your own heart upon your bed and be still. Selah.

⁵ Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and trust in the LORD.

⁶ Many say, “Who will show us good?” LORD, lift up the light of Your countenance upon us.

⁷ You have given me more joy of heart than when their wheat and their wine abounded.

⁸ I will lay down, and also sleep, in peace. For You only, LORD, make me dwell in safety. To him who excels upon Nehiloth: A Psalm of David.

9 In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes; who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

² In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the books of Jeremiah, the Prophet, the number of the years in which the LORD said He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

³ And I turned my face to the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

⁴ And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, saying, “Oh Lord God, Who are great and fearful, and keep Covenant and mercy toward those who love You, and toward those who keep Your Commandments,

⁵ “we have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly. Yea, we have rebelled, and have departed from your Precepts, and from your Judgments.

⁶ “For we would not obey your servants, the Prophets; who spoke in your name to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

⁷ “O Lord, righteousness belongs to you; and to us, open shame, as appears this day to every man of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; yea, to all Israel, both near and far off, through all the country where you have driven them because of the offenses they have committed against you.

⁸ “O Lord, to us belongs open shame – to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers - because we have sinned against You.

⁹ “Yet compassion and forgiveness is in the Lord our God, even though we have rebelled against him.

¹⁰ “For we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God; to walk in his laws, which he has laid before us, by the ministry of his servants, the Prophets.

¹¹ “Yea, all Israel has transgressed your Law, and has turned back, and has not heard your voice. Therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

¹² “And he has confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great plague. For under the whole heaven has there not been such as has been brought upon Jerusalem.

¹³ “All this plague has come upon us, as it is written in the Law of Moses. Yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand your truth.

¹⁴ “Therefore, the LORD has made ready the plague, and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does. For we would not hear his voice.

¹⁵ “And now, O Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand - and has gotten yourself renown, as appears this day - we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

¹⁶ “O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beg you, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city, Jerusalem, your holy Mountain. Because of our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are a reproach to all that are around us.

¹⁷ “Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications. And for the Lord’s sake, cause your face to shine upon your Sanctuary, which lies in ruins.

¹⁸ “O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city whereupon your Name is called. For we do not present our supplications before you for our own righteousness, but for your great tender mercies.

¹⁹ “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, consider, and do it! Do not delay, for your own sake, O my God. For your Name is called upon your city, and your people.”

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour. And just as you have heard that Antichrist shall come, so now there are many Antichrists (by which we know that it is the last hour).

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But this is so that all of those who were not of us are revealed.

²⁰ But you have an anointing from the Holy One and know all things.

²¹ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it (and no lie comes from the truth).

²² Who is a liar, except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

²³ Whoever denies the Son, the same does not have the Father.

²⁴ Therefore, let that same which you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you shall also continue in the Son and in the Father.

²⁵ And this is the promise that He has promised us: eternal life.