Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

13 How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

³ Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;

⁴ Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! [lest] mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.

⁵ As for me, I have confided in thy loving-kindness; my heart shall be joyful in thy salvation.

⁶ I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath dealt bountifully with me.

12 The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. [Thus] saith Jehovah, who stretcheth out the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:

² Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of bewilderment unto all the peoples round about, and also against Judah shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

³ And it shall come to pass in that day [that] I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone unto all peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall certainly be wounded, and all the nations of the earth shall be assembled together against it.

⁴ In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness; but I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.

⁵ And the leaders of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength through Jehovah of hosts their God.

⁶ In that day will I make the leaders of Judah like a hearth of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem shall dwell again in her own place, in Jerusalem.

⁷ And Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified over Judah.

⁸ In that day will Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that stumbleth among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David as God, as the Angel of Jehovah before them.

⁹ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.

¹¹ In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

¹² And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

¹³ the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

¹⁴ all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

13 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

⁹ But *ye*, take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims and to synagogues: ye shall be beaten and brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them;

¹⁰ and the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

¹¹ But when they shall lead you away to deliver you up, be not careful beforehand as to what ye shall say, [nor prepare your discourse]: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak; for *ye* are not the speakers, but the Holy Spirit.

¹² But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

¹³ And ye will be hated of all on account of my name; but he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.

¹⁴ But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not, (he that reads let him consider [it],) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains;

¹⁵ and him that is upon the housetop not come down into the house, nor enter [into it] to take away anything out of his house;

¹⁶ and him that is in the field not return back to take his garment.

¹⁷ But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

¹⁸ And pray that it may not be in winter time;

¹⁹ for those days shall be distress such as there has not been the like since [the] beginning of creation which God created, until now, and never shall be;

²⁰ and if [the] Lord had not cut short those days, no flesh should have been saved; but on account of the elect whom he has chosen, he has cut short those days.

²¹ And then if any one say to you, Lo, here [is] the Christ, or Lo, there, believe [it] not.

²² For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

²³ But do *ye* take heed: behold, I have told you all things beforehand.