Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ For you have said, “The LORD is my hope.” You have set the Most High for your refuge.

¹⁰ No evil shall come to you. Nor shall any plague come near your house.

¹¹ For He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways.

¹² They shall hold you in their hands, so that you do not strike your foot against a stone.

¹³ You shall walk upon the lion and asp. The young lion and the dragon you shall tread underfoot.

¹⁴ “Because he has loved Me, therefore will I deliver him. I will exalt him because he has known My Name.

¹⁵ “He shall call upon Me, and I will hear him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and glorify him.

¹⁶ “I will satisfy him with long life and show him my salvation.” A Psalm, or song, for the Sabbath day

¹⁰ “For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have caused you to rebel. And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and no one else.’

¹¹ “Therefore, misery shall come upon you. And you shall not know its morning. Destruction shall fall upon you, which you shall not be able to put away. Destruction shall come upon you suddenly, you not being aware.

¹² “Stand, now, among your enchanters, and in the multitude of your soothsayers (with whom you have wearied yourself from your youth) if so be you may have profit, or if so be you may have strength.

¹³ “You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you.

¹⁴ “Behold, they shall be as stubble. The fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver their own lives from the power of the flame. There shall be no coals at which to warm or light by which to sit.

¹⁵ “Thus shall they with whom you have wearied yourself serve you, your merchants from your youth. Everyone shall wander to his own quarters. No one shall save you.”

²⁴ And there also arose among them a dispute about which one was thought to be the greatest.

²⁵ But He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles reign over them. And those who bear rule over them are called benefactors.

²⁶ “But you shall not be so. But let the greatest among you be as the least; and the chief as he who serves.

²⁷ “For who is greater, the one who sits at table, or the one who serves? Is not the one who sits at table? And I am among you as one who serves.

²⁸ “And you are those who have continued with Me in My trials.

²⁹ “Therefore, I appoint to you a Kingdom, as my Father has appointed to Me,

³⁰ “So that you may eat and drink at My table, in My Kingdom; and sit on seats and judge the twelve tribes of Israel.