Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

52 Why do you boast of your wickedness, O man of power? The lovingkindness of God endures daily.

² Your tongue imagines mischief, like a sharp razor that cuts deceitfully.

³ You love evil more than good, lies more than to speak the truth. Selah.

⁴ You love all words that may destroy. O deceitful tongue!

⁵ So shall God destroy you forever. He shall take you and pluck you out of your tabernacle, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶ Also, the righteous shall see it, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

⁷ “Behold the man who did not take God for His strength but trusted in the multitude of his riches and put his strength in his malice.”

⁸ But I shall be like a green olive tree in the House of God. I trusted in the mercy of God forever and ever.

⁹ I will always praise You because You have done this. And I will hope in Your Name because it is good before Your saints. To him who excels on Mahalath: A Psalm of David to give instruction

¹¹ “And say to the House of the king of Judah, ‘Hear the Word of the LORD,

¹² O House of David! Thus says the LORD: “Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn, so that no one can quench it because of the wickedness of your works.

¹³ “Behold, I come against you, O inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain,” says the LORD, “which says, ‘Who shall come down against us?’ Or ‘Who shall enter into our habitations?’

¹⁴ “But I will visit you according to the fruit of your works,” says the LORD, “and I will kindle a fire in its forest. And it shall devour all around it.”’”

²² And I saw no Temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it.

²³ And their city has no need of the Sun, nor of the Moon, to shine in it. For the Glory of God lit it. And the Lamb is the Light of it.

²⁴ And the people who are saved shall walk in the light of it. And the kings of the Earth shall bring their glory and honor to it.

²⁵ And the gates of it shall not be shut by day. For there shall be no night there.

²⁶ And the glory and honor of the Gentiles shall be brought into it.

²⁷ And there shall enter into it no unclean thing, nor whatever works abomination or lies; but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

22 And he showed me a pure river of 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 - was the Tree of Life, which bore twelve kinds of fruits and gave fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree served to heal the nations.

³ And there shall no longer be any 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 on their foreheads.

⁵ And there shall be no night there. And they need no lamp, nor light of the Sun. For the Lord God gives them Light. And they shall reign forevermore.