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.

7 In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babel, Daniel saw a dream. And there were visions in his head, upon his bed: Then he wrote the dream, and declared the sum of the matter.

² Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heaven stirred up the great sea.

³ “And four great beasts came up from the sea, one diverse from another.

⁴ “The first was as a lion; and had eagle’s wings. I looked until the wings thereof were plucked off. And it was lifted up from the earth, and set upon his feet as a man. And a man’s heart was given him.

⁵ “And behold, another beast which was the second, was like a bear; and stood upon one side. And he had three ribs in his mouth, between his teeth. And they said to him, ‘Arise, and devour much flesh.’

⁶ “After this, I beheld, and lo, there was another, like a leopard, which had upon his back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads. And dominion was given him.

⁷ “After this, I saw in the visions by night. And behold, the fourth beast was fearful and terrible and very strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue under his feet. And it was unlike the beasts that were before it. For it had ten horns.

⁸ “As I considered the horns, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before which three of the first horns were plucked away. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous things.

¹⁵ “I, Daniel, was troubled in my spirit, in the midst of my body. And the visions of my head made me afraid.

¹⁶ “Therefore I came to one of them who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and showed me the interpretation of these things.

¹⁷ “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.

¹⁸ “And they shall take the kingdom of the Saints of the most High, and shall possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.

³¹ “The One who has come from on high is above all. The one who is from the Earth, is from the Earth, and speaks from the Earth. The One who has come from Heaven is above all.

³² “And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies. But no one receives His testimony.

³³ “The one who has received His testimony, has sealed that God is true.

³⁴ “For He Whom God has sent speaks the words of God. For God does not give the Spirit by measure.

³⁵ “The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

³⁶ “The one who believes in the Son has everlasting life. And the one who disbelieves the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”