Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ I will hear what God, Jehovah, will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his godly ones: but let them not turn again to folly.

⁹ Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰ Loving-kindness and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other:

¹¹ Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.

¹² Jehovah also will give what is good, and our land shall yield its increase.

¹³ Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set his footsteps on the way.

⁶ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

⁷ panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name.

⁸ And they lay [themselves] down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink [in] the house of their God the wine of the condemned.

⁹ But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

¹⁰ And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹ And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.

¹² And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

¹³ Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.

¹⁴ And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.

¹⁵ Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul;

¹⁶ and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.

2 For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

² to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the mystery of God;

³ in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.

⁴ And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech.

⁵ For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.