Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

26 Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity. I have also trusted in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.

² Examine me, O Lord, and test me; try my reins and my heart.

³ For Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in Thy truth.

⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I consort with dissemblers.

⁵ I have hated the congregation of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

⁶ I will wash mine hands in innocence; so will I compass Thine altar, O Lord,

⁷ that I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Thy wondrous works.

⁸ Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thine honor dwelleth.

⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men,

¹⁰ in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity; redeem me and be merciful unto me.

¹² My foot standeth on a level place; in the congregations will I bless the Lord.

¹⁰ “For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

¹¹ In the day that thou stoodest on the other side—in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem” even thou wast as one of them.

¹² But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

¹³ Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.

¹⁴ Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that remained in the day of distress.

¹⁵ “For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen. As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

¹⁶ For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

8 And when He had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour.

² And I saw the seven angels who stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

³ And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne.

⁴ And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

⁵ And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and cast it onto the earth; and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings, and an earthquake.