Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David.

141 Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.

² Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.

³ Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

⁴ Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.

⁵ Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.

⁶ When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

⁷ Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

⁸ For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes; in thee do I trust: leave not my soul destitute.

⁹ Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that *I* withal pass over.

43 And he brought me unto the gate, the gate which looked toward the east.

² And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and his voice was like the voice of many waters; and the earth was lit up with his glory.

³ And the appearance of the vision that I saw was according to the vision that I had seen when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar: and I fell upon my face.

⁴ And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the gate whose front was toward the east.

⁵ And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.

⁶ And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man was standing by me.

⁷ And he said unto me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they nor their kings, with their fornication, and with the carcases of their kings [in] their high places,

⁸ in that they set their threshold by my threshold, and their post by my post, and [there was only] a wall between me and them, and they defiled my holy name with their abominations which they committed; and I consumed them in mine anger.

⁹ Now let them put away their fornication, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

¹⁰ Thou, son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be confounded at their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

¹¹ And if they be confounded at all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its goings out, and its comings in, and all its forms, and all its statutes, yea, all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the statutes thereof, and do them.

¹² This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain all its border round about is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

³⁸ Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;

³⁹ for I say unto you, Ye shall in no wise see me henceforth until ye say, Blessed [be] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord.

24 And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple, and his disciples came to [him] to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

² And he answering said to them, Do ye not see all these things? Verily I say to you, Not a stone shall be left here upon a stone which shall not be thrown down.

³ And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign of thy coming and [the] completion of the age?

⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, See that no one mislead you.

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.

⁶ But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all [these things] must take place, but it is not yet the end.

⁷ For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.

⁸ But all these [are the] beginning of throes.

⁹ Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

¹⁰ And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;

¹¹ and many false prophets shall arise and shall mislead many;

¹² and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the most shall grow cold;

¹³ but he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.

¹⁴ And these glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole habitable earth, for a witness to all the nations, and then shall come the end.