Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

100 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the Earth!

² Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before Him with joyfulness!

³ Know that the LORD is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

⁴ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, into His courts with rejoicing. Give Him thanks. Praise Him; and bless His Name.

⁵ For the LORD is good. His mercy is everlasting; and His truth is from generation to generation. A Psalm of David

5 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David, to Hebron, and said this: “Behold, we are your bones and your flesh.

² “And in time past, when Saul was our king, you led Israel in and out. And the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall feed my people, Israel, and you shall be a captain over Israel.’”

³ So, all the elders of Israel came to the king, to Hebron. And King David made a covenant with them in Hebron, before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel.

⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years.

⁵ He reigned over Judah for seven years and six months in Hebron. And he reigned over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

⁶ Also, the king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites (the inhabitants of the land), who spoke to David, saying, “Unless you turn aside the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here,” thinking that David could not come there.

⁷ But David took the fort of Zion. This is the City of David.

⁸ Now David had said the same day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, go up to the gutters!” (and the lame and blind, whom David’s soul hates). Therefore, they said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into that house!”

⁹ So David dwelt in that fort and called it the City of David. And David built all around it, from Millo, inward. LORD God of Hosts was with him.

¹¹ Also Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David and cedar trees and carpenters and masons for walls. And they built David a house.

¹² Then David knew that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.

15 Then all the tax collectors and sinners came to Him, to hear Him.

² Therefore, the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, “He receives sinners, and eats with them.”

³ Then He spoke this parable to them, saying,

⁴ “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it?

⁵ “And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders with joy.

⁶ “And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me! For I have found my sheep which was lost!’

⁷ “I say to you that joy shall likewise be in Heaven for one sinner who converts, more than for ninety-nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.