Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

26 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my innocence. My trust has also been in the LORD. Therefore, I shall not slide.

² Test me, O LORD, and try me. Examine my core and my heart.

³ For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes. Therefore, I have walked in Your truth.

⁴ I have not dwelt with frivolous people, nor kept company with the deceitful.

⁵ I have hated the assembly of the evil and have not kept company with the wicked.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, O LORD, and surround Your altar.

⁷ So that I may declare with the voice of thanksgiving and set forth all Your wondrous works.

⁸ O LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your honor dwells.

⁹ Do not gather my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloody men,

¹⁰ in whose hands are wickedness, and their right hands are full of bribes.

¹¹ But I will walk in my innocence. Redeem me and be merciful to me.

¹² My foot stands in uprightness. I will praise You, O LORD, in the Congregations. A Psalm of David.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the LORD God against Edom: (We have heard a rumor from the LORD. And an ambassador has been sent among the heathen. Arise and let us rise up against her to battle!)

² “Behold, I have made you small among the heathen. You are utterly despised.

³ “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwells in the clefts of the rocks, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who shall bring me down to the ground?’

⁴ “Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and make your nest among the stars, there will I bring you down,” says the LORD.

⁵ “Did thieves or robbers come to you at night? How were you brought to silence? Would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

⁶ “How the things of Esau will be sought, and his treasures searched!

⁷ “All the men of your confederacy have driven you to the borders. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you and prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have laid a trap for you. There is no understanding in him.

⁸ “Shall I not, on that day,” says the LORD, “destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the Mount of Esau?

⁹ “And your strong men, O Teman, shall be afraid. Because everyone of the Mount of Esau shall be cut off by slaughter.

⁹ After these things I looked. And lo, a great multitude (which no man could number) of all nations and tribes and people and tongues stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with long white robes and palms in their hands.

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation comes from our God Who sits upon the throne, and from the Lamb.”

¹¹ And all the angels stood around the throne, and around the elders, and the four beasts. And they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

¹² Saying, “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and might be to our God for evermore! Amen!”

¹³ And one of the elders spoke, saying to me, “Who are these who are clothed in long white robes? And from where have they come?”

¹⁴ And I said to him, “Lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes and have made their long robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁵ Therefore, they are in the presence of the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His Temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more, nor thirst anymore, nor shall the Sun fall upon them, nor any heat.

¹⁷ For the Lamb, Who is in the midst of the throne, shall govern them and shall lead them to the lively fountains of waters. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”