Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁵ The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their cry;

¹⁶ The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth:

¹⁷ [The righteous] cry, and Jehovah heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸ Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit.

¹⁹ Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:

²⁰ He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.

²¹ Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

²² Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall bear guilt.

22 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

² and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

³ Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, and ye have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.

⁴ And now Jehovah your God hath given rest to your brethren, as he said unto them; and now return, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan.

⁵ Only, take great heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

⁶ And Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.

⁷ And to half the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [inheritance] in Bashan, and to the other half thereof had Joshua given among their brethren on this side the Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them also,

⁸ and spoke to them, saying, Return unto your tents with much wealth and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with copper, and with iron, and with clothing, in very great quantity; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

⁹ And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, into the land of their possession, of which they had become possessed, according to the word of Jehovah through Moses.

5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that ye should be written to,

² for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of [the] Lord so comes as a thief by night.

³ When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

⁴ But *ye*, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:

⁵ for all *ye* are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

⁶ So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

⁷ for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

⁸ but *we* being of [the] day, let us be sober, putting on [the] breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet [the] hope of salvation;

⁹ because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or sleep, we may live together with him.

¹¹ Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.