Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

This psalm is a song for the music leader.

Praise God!^[a]

¹⁰ All the land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become flat. But Jerusalem will rise and it will be high in its place. The city will be from the Gate of Benjamin to the Corner Gate and to the High Building of Hananel. The place where the servants of the king make his wine will be in it too.

¹¹ Jerusalem will be safe. People will live there. Nobody will destroy Jerusalem ever again.

¹² The Lord will make the people sick that fought against Jerusalem. Their bodies will become bad as they stand on their feet. Their eyes will become bad and they will fall out. And their tongues will become bad in their mouths.

¹³ On that day, the Lord will make men so afraid that each man will attack the man next to him.

¹⁴ Judah also will go to Jerusalem and they will fight. They will take every good thing from all the countries. There will be a lot of expensive metals and many rich clothes.

¹⁵ The horses and all the other animals will be sick. And they will die as the soldiers died.

¹⁶ Some of the soldiers from the countries that attacked Jerusalem will not die. They will go to Jerusalem year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty. They will worship him at the Feast of Huts.^[a]

¹⁷ All the people on the earth will have to go to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty. If any people on the earth do not go, they will have no rain.

¹⁸ If the people from Egypt do not go to Jerusalem to worship the Lord, they will have no rain. And the Lord will make them sick. If the people from other countries will not go to Jerusalem, the Lord will make them sick. They will die.

¹⁹ This will happen to the people from Egypt. This will happen to the people from all the countries that do not go up to Jerusalem at that time.

²⁰ On that day, men will write the words, ‘This is for the Lord’ on the bells of the horses. The pots that anyone uses to cook with in the house of the Lord will be special. They will be as special as the dishes in front of the altar.

²¹ Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be for the Lord Almighty. All the people who come to offer animals to the Lord will cook in those pots. On that day, nobody who sells things will come into the house of the Lord Almighty.

Jesus sends out the 12 apostles

9 Jesus asked his 12 apostles to come to him. He gave them power and authority. They could make sick people well. They could also send bad spirits out of people. ² Then he sent them out to tell people about the kingdom of God. He told them that they should also make sick people well again. ³ He said to them, ‘Do not take anything for your journey. Do not take a stick, or a bag, or food. Do not take any money. Do not take extra clothes.^{[a] 4} In each town, continue to stay at the first house that you go into. Stay there until you leave that town. ⁵ In some towns, the people will not accept you. You should leave that place. Clean that town's dirt from your feet. Then it will be clear that they have done something wrong.’

⁶ Then the apostles started out. They went to visit all the villages. In every place they told people the good news about Jesus and they made sick people well.