Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. Upon Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.

5 Give ear to my words, O Jehovah; consider my meditation.

² Hearken unto the voice of my crying, my king and my God; for to thee will I pray.

³ Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; in the morning will I address myself to thee, and will look up.

⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.

⁵ Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

⁶ Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a man of blood and deceit.

⁷ But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

⁸ Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.

⁹ For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

¹⁰ Bring guilt upon them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels: drive them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.

¹¹ And all that trust in thee shall rejoice: for ever shall they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that love thy name shall exult in thee.

¹² For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous [man]; with favour wilt thou surround him as [with] a shield.

¹⁸ And the word of Jehovah of hosts came unto me, saying,

¹⁹ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month] and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful gatherings. Love ye then truth and peace.

²⁰ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there come peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities;

²¹ and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to supplicate Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts: I will go also.

²² And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to supplicate Jehovah.

²³ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days shall ten men take hold, out of all languages of the nations, shall even take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard [that] God is with you.

¹⁸ Little children, it is [the] last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is [the] last hour.

¹⁹ They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

²⁰ And *ye* have [the] unction from the holy [one], and ye know all things.

²¹ I have not written to you because ye do not know the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

²² Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? *He* is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

²³ Whoever denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also.

²⁴ As for *you* let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, *ye* also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

²⁵ And this is the promise which *he* has promised us, life eternal.