Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
13 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
2 How long shall I take counsel within myself, having weariness daily in my heart? How long shall my enemy be exalted above me?
3 Behold. Hear me, O LORD, my God. Enlighten my eyes, so that I do not sleep in death,
4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him.” And those who afflict me rejoice when I slide.
5 But I trust in Your mercy. My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. I will sing to the LORD, because He has dealt lovingly with me. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
12 “The burden of the Word of the LORD upon Israel,” says the LORD, “Who spread the heavens and laid the foundation of the Earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of poison to all the people, all around. And it will also be with Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
3 “And on that day, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all people. All who lift it up shall be torn, though all the people of the Earth are gathered together against it.
4 “On that day,” says the LORD, “I will strike every horse with astonishment, and its rider with madness. And I will open My Eyes upon the House of Judah and will strike every horse of the people with blindness.
5 “And the princes of Judah shall say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength’ in the LORD of Hosts their God.
6 “On that day, I will make the princes of Judah like coals of fire among the wood, and like a firebrand in the sheaf. And they shall devour all the people all around on the right hand and on the left. And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, in Jerusalem.
7 “The LORD shall also preserve the tents of Judah, as before. Therefore, the glory of the House of David shall not boast, nor the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem against Judah.
8 “On that day, the LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And on that day, he who is feeble among them shall be the same as David. And the House of David shall be like God’s house, and as the Angel of the LORD before them.
9 “And on that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 “And I will pour the Spirit of grace and of compassion upon the House of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they shall look upon Me, Whom they have pierced. And they shall lament for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and be sorry for him as one is sorry for his firstborn.
11 “On that day, there shall be great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
12 “And the land shall mourn every family by itself: the family of the House of David by itself and their wives by themselves, the family of the House of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves,
13 “the family of the House of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves, the family of Shemei by itself and their wives by themselves,
14 “all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves.”
13 “At that time, there shall be a fountain opened to the House of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
9 “But beware. For they shall deliver you up to the councils, and to the synagogues. You shall be beaten and brought before rulers and kings for My sake; for a testimonial to them.
10 “And the Gospel must first be proclaimed among all nations.
11 “But when they deliver you up, do not be careful beforehand, nor study what you shall say. But speak what is given to you at that time. For it is not you who speaks, but the Holy Ghost.
12 “Indeed, and the brother shall deliver the brother to death, and the father the son. And the children shall rise against their parents and shall cause them to die.
13 “And you shall be hated by all for My Name’s sake. But whoever shall endure to the end, shall be saved.
14 “Moreover, when you shall see the Abomination of Desolation (spoken of by Daniel the Prophet) set where it ought not be, let whoever hears consider it. Then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains.
15 “And let no one who is upon the house come down into the house, nor enter into it to fetch anything out of his house.
16 “And let no one who is in the field turn back again to take his garment.
17 “Then woe shall be to those who are with child, and to those who nurse in those days.
18 “Pray, therefore, that your flight is not in the winter.
19 “For those days shall be such tribulation as was not from the beginning of the Creation (which God created) until this time, nor shall be.
20 “And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved. But for the Elect’s sake (which He has chosen) He has shortened those days.
21 “Then, if anyone says to you, ‘Lo, here is Christ’, or ‘Look, he is there’, do not believe it.
22 “For false christs shall rise, and false prophets, and shall show signs and wonders to deceive (if it were possible) the very Elect.
23 “But beware. Behold, I have shown you all things before.
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