Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.

76 In Judah is God known, his name is great in Israel;

² And in Salem is his tent, and his dwelling-place in Zion.

³ There broke he the flashings of the bow, shield and sword and battle. Selah.

⁴ More glorious art thou, more excellent, than the mountains of prey.

⁵ The stout-hearted are made a spoil, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.

⁶ At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

⁷ Thou, thou art to be feared, and who can stand before thee when once thou art angry?

⁸ Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from the heavens; the earth feared, and was still,

⁹ When God rose up to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

¹⁰ For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of fury wilt thou gird on thyself.

¹¹ Vow and pay unto Jehovah your God: let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that is to be feared.

¹² He cutteth off the spirit of princes; [he] is terrible to the kings of the earth.

29 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], on the twelfth of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

² Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt;

³ speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which saith, My river is mine own, and I made it for myself.

⁴ And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales;

⁵ and I will cast thee into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together nor gathered: I will give thee for meat to the beasts of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens.

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am] Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

⁷ When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst give way and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and didst make all their loins to tremble.

⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast from thee.

⁹ And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, because he saith, The river is mine, and I made it.

¹⁰ Therefore behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt deserts of wasteness and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, even unto the border of Ethiopia.

¹¹ No foot of man shall pass through it, nor shall foot of beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited, forty years.

¹² And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolated, and her cities shall be, in the midst of the cities that are laid waste, a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded [his] trumpet: and there were great voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world of our Lord and of his Christ is come, and he shall reign to the ages of ages.

¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

¹⁷ saying, We give thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, [He] who is, and who was, that thou hast taken thy great power and hast reigned.

¹⁸ And the nations have been full of wrath, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the recompense to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name, small and great; and to destroy those that destroy the earth.

¹⁹ And the temple of God in the heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.