Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

93 The LORD reigns and is clothed with majesty. The LORD is clothed and girded with power. Also, the world shall be established, so that it cannot be moved.

² Your throne is established of old. You are from everlasting.

³ The floods have lifted up, O LORD. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

⁴ The waves of the sea are marvelous through the noise of many waters. The LORD on High is more mighty.

⁵ Your testimonies are very sure. Holiness becomes Your House, O LORD, forever.

28 The Word of the LORD came again to me, saying:

² “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your heart is haughty, and you have said, ‘I am a god. I sit on the Seat of God, in the midst of the sea.’ Yet you are but a man and not God. And though you thought in your heart that you were equal with God—

³ “Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you.

⁴ “With your wisdom and your understanding, you have gotten riches for yourself, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.

⁵ “By your great wisdom, by your trading, you have increased your riches; and your heart is haughty because of your riches—

⁶ ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you thought, in your heart, that you were equal with God,

⁷ “behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon you, the ruthless nations. And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. And they shall defile your brightness.

⁸ “They shall cast you down into the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are killed in the midst of the sea.

⁹ “Will you then say before him who kills you, ‘I am a god?’ But you shall be a man, and not God, in the hands of him who kills you.

¹⁰ “You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hands of strangers. For I have spoken it,” says the Lord GOD.’”

⁵⁴ And when they heard these things, they were cut to the quick. And they gnashed at him with their teeth.

⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked steadfastly into Heaven, and saw the Glory of God; and Jesus, standing at the right hand of God,

⁵⁶ and said, “Behold, I see the heavens open! And the Son of Man, standing at the right hand of God!”

⁵⁷ Then they gave a shout with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him violently all at once,

⁵⁸ and cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, who called out, saying, “Lord Jesus! Receive my spirit!”

⁶⁰ And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord! Do not lay this sin to their charge!” And when he had spoken this, he slept.

8 And Saul consented to his death. And at that time, there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles.