Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Of David. A Psalm.

24 The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

² For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods.

³ Who shall ascend into the mount of Jehovah? and who shall stand in his holy place?

⁴ He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully:

⁵ He shall receive blessing from Jehovah, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶ This is the generation of them that seek unto him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

⁷ Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

⁸ Who is this King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty in battle.

⁹ Lift up your heads, ye gates; yea, lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

¹⁰ Who is he, this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

¹⁸ [As] I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

¹⁹ Thou, inhabitress, daughter of Egypt, furnish for thyself a captive's baggage, for Noph shall be a desolation and shall be ruined, so that none shall dwell therein.

²⁰ Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.

²¹ Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

²² Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

²³ They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt is put to shame; she is delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

²⁵ Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith, Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings; yea, Pharaoh and them that confide in him.

²⁶ And I will give them into the hand of those that seek their life, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; but afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.

²⁷ But thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, neither be dismayed, Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.

²⁸ Fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee with judgment, and I will not hold thee altogether guiltless.

⁵ And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says [to me], Write, for these words are true and faithful.

⁶ And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely.

⁷ He that overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me son.

⁸ But to the fearful and unbelieving, [and sinners], and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [is] in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

⁹ And there came one of the seven angels which had had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

¹⁰ And he carried me away in [the] Spirit, [and set me] on a great and high mountain, and shewed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,

¹¹ having the glory of God. Her shining [was] like a most precious stone, as a crystal-like jasper stone;

¹² having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are those of the twelve tribes of [the] sons of Israel.

¹³ On [the] east three gates; and on [the] north three gates; and on [the] south three gates; and on [the] west three gates.

¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And he that spoke with me had a golden reed [as] a measure, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall.

¹⁶ And the city lies four-square, and its length [is] as much as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed—twelve thousand stadia: the length and the breadth and height of it are equal.

¹⁷ And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [a] man's measure, that is, [the] angel's.

¹⁸ And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass:

¹⁹ the foundations of the wall of the city [were] adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation, jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

²¹ And the twelve gates, twelve pearls; each one of the gates, respectively, was of one pearl; and the street of the city pure gold, as transparent glass.

²² And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb.

²³ And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should shine for it; for the glory of God has enlightened it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb.

²⁴ And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory to it.

²⁵ And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.

²⁶ And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations to it.

²⁷ And nothing common, nor that maketh an abomination and a lie, shall at all enter into it; but those only who [are] written in the book of life of the Lamb.