Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

103 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty:

² And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

³ Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.

⁴ Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.

⁵ Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

⁶ The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

⁷ At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

⁸ The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.

⁹ Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.

¹⁰ Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.

¹¹ All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall expect in their thirst.

¹² Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.

¹³ Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

²² The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.

⁴⁴ Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.

⁴⁵ Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.

⁴⁶ And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.

⁴⁷ But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways.

⁴⁸ As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters.

⁴⁹ Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and to the poor.

⁵⁰ And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.

⁵¹ And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast surpassed them with thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters by all thy abominations which thou hast done.

⁵² Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that hast surpassed thy sisters with thy sins, doing more wickedly than they: for they are justified above thee, therefore be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, thou that hast justified thy sisters.

1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

² Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our Lord:

³ As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness, are given us, through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue.

⁴ By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.

⁵ And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

⁶ And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness;

⁷ And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity.

⁸ For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ For he that hath not these things with him, is blind, and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

¹¹ For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.