Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

98 A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.

² The Lord is great in Sion, and high above all people.

³ Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and holy:

⁴ And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

⁵ Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.

⁶ Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:

⁷ He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.

⁸ Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.

⁹ Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

⁶ I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles:

⁷ That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

⁸ I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.

⁹ The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you head them.

³⁴ And Peter opening his mouth, said: In very deed I perceive, that God is not a respecter of persons.

³⁵ But in every nation, he that feareth him, and worketh justice, is acceptable to him.

³⁶ God sent the word to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all.)

³⁷ You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached,

³⁸ Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost, and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

³⁹ And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.

⁴⁰ Him God raised up the third day, and gave him to be made manifest,

⁴¹ Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he arose again from the dead;

⁴² And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God, to be judge of the living and of the dead.

⁴³ To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him.