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.

¹⁰ “Because of your cruelty against your brother, Jacob, shame shall cover you. And you shall be cut off forever.

¹¹ “When you stood on the other side, in the time when the strangers carried away his wealth, and strangers entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, you were as one of them.

¹² “But you should not have stared in the time of your brother, in the time that he was made a stranger. Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the time of their destruction. You should not have spoken proudly in the time of affliction.

¹³ “You should not have entered into the gate of My people in the time of their destruction. Nor should you have once looked on their affliction in the time of their destruction, nor have laid hands on their wealth in the time of their destruction.

¹⁴ “Nor should you have stood in the crossways to cut off those who would escape. Nor should you have shut up their remnant in the time of affliction.

¹⁵ “For the Day of the LORD upon all the heathen is near. As you have done, it shall be done to you. Your reward shall return upon your head.

¹⁶ “For as you have drunk upon My Holy Mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually. Indeed, they shall drink and swallow up. And they shall be as though they had not been.

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

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

³ Then another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer. And much incense was given to him; which he would offer, with the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the throne.

⁴ And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went 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 into the Earth. And there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake.