Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

52 Why boastest thou in thine own mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endureth continually.

² Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³ Thou lovest evil more than good, and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah

⁴ Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

⁵ God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah

⁶ The righteous also shall see this and fear, and shall laugh at him:

⁷ “Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his own wickedness.”

⁸ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

⁹ I will praise Thee for ever, because Thou hast done it, and I will wait on Thy name, for it is good before Thy saints.

¹¹ “And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, ‘Hear ye the word of the Lord,

¹² O house of David. Thus saith the Lord: “‘Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is despoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire and burn, that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

¹³ Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain, saith the Lord, who say, “Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter into our habitations?”

¹⁴ But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord; and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.’”

²² And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

²³ And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God gave it light, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

²⁴ And the nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.

²⁵ And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there,

²⁶ and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but only they that are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

22 And he showed me a pure river of the 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, there was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

³ And there shall be no more 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 in their foreheads.

⁵ And there shall be no night there, and they will need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light. And they shall reign for ever and ever.