Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

4 For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

² And unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and leap like fatted calves.

A Psalm.

98 Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: for he hath done wondrous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath wrought salvation for him.

² Jehovah hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the nations.

³ He hath remembered his loving-kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms.

⁵ Sing psalms unto Jehovah with the harp: with the harp, and the voice of a song;

⁶ With trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.

⁷ Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein;

⁸ Let the floods clap [their] hands; let the mountains sing for joy together,

⁹ Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

⁶ Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

⁷ For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;

⁸ nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

⁹ not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.

¹⁰ For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

¹¹ For we hear that [there are] some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.

¹² Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

¹³ But *ye*, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.

⁵ And as some spoke of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and consecrated offerings, he said,

⁶ [As to] these things which ye are beholding, days are coming in which there shall not be left stone upon stone which shall not be thrown down.

⁷ And they asked him saying, Teacher, when then shall these things be; and what [is] the sign when these things are going to take place?

⁸ And he said, See that ye be not led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am [he], and the time is drawn nigh: go ye not [therefore] after them.

⁹ And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end is not immediately.

¹⁰ Then he said to them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

¹¹ there shall be both great earthquakes in different places, and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

¹² But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering [you] up to synagogues and prisons, bringing [you] before kings and governors on account of my name;

¹³ but it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

¹⁴ Settle therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand [your] defence,

¹⁵ for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.

¹⁶ But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death [some] from among you,

¹⁷ and ye will be hated of all for my name's sake.

¹⁸ And a hair of your head shall in no wise perish.

¹⁹ By your patient endurance gain your souls.