Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

76 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph.

² I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

³ In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

⁴ I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

⁵ My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

⁶ I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal years.

⁷ And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.

⁸ Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again?

⁹ Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to generation?

¹⁰ Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?

¹¹ And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High.

¹² I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.

¹³ And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy inventions.

¹⁴ Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God?

¹⁵ Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou hast made thy power known among the nations:

¹⁶ With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph.

¹⁷ The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were afraid, and the depths were troubled.

¹⁸ Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound. For thy arrows pass:

¹⁹ The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.

²⁰ Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

²¹ Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

29 In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

² Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt: and thou shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:

³ Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.

⁴ But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales.

⁵ And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air.

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord: because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel.

⁷ When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst break, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all their loins.

⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.

⁹ And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord: because thou hast said: The river is mine, and I made it.

¹⁰ Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and I will make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by the sword, from the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia.

¹¹ The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty years.

¹² And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the midst of the cities that are destroyed, and they shall be desolate for forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁶ And the four and twenty ancients, who sit on their seats in the sight of God, fell on their faces and adored God, saying:

¹⁷ We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and thou hast reigned.

¹⁸ And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest render reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear thy name, little and great, and shouldest destroy them who have corrupted the earth.

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