Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ ¶ Because thou hast made the LORD, who is my hope, even the most High, thy habitation,

¹⁰ no evil shall befall thee, neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling.

¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.

¹² They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thy foot stumble against a stone.

¹³ Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

¹⁴ Because he has set his will upon me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high because he has known my name.

¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and glorify him.

¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him and show him my saving health.

¹⁰ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, No one sees me. Thy wisdom and thine own knowledge; it has deceived thee; for thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and no one else beside me.

¹¹ Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from where it rises; and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and destruction shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

¹² Stand now with thine enchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries in which thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to better thyself, if so be thou may prevail.

¹³ Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now those that contemplate the heavens, those that speculate regarding the stars, those that teach the courses of the moon, stand up and defend thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

¹⁴ Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver their lives from the hand of the flame; there shall not be a coal left to warm at, nor light to sit before it.

¹⁵ Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander each one to his own way; there shall be no one to save thee.

²⁴ And there was also a contention among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

²⁵ Then he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those that exercise authority upon them are called well-doers.

²⁶ But ye shall not be so, but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is prince, as he that doth serve.

²⁷ For who is greater, he that sits at the table or he that serves? Is it not he that sits at the table? But I am among you as he that serves.

²⁸ But ye are those who have continued with me in my temptations.

²⁹ And I appoint unto you a kingdom as my Father has appointed unto me;

³⁰ that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.