Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

24 The Earth is the LORD’s and all that therein is, the world and those who dwell therein.

² For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.

³ Who shall ascend into the Mountain of the LORD? And who shall stand in His Holy Place?

⁴ He who has innocent hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his mind to vanity nor sworn deceitfully.

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

⁶ This is the generation of those who seek Him, of those who seek Your face. This is Jacob. Selah.

⁷ Lift up your heads, you gates. And be lifted up, you everlasting doors. And the King of Glory shall come in.

⁸ Who is this King of Glory: The LORD, strong and mighty. The LORD, mighty in battle.

⁹ Lift up your heads, you gates. And lift up yourselves, you everlasting doors. And the King of Glory shall come in.

¹⁰ Who is this King of Glory: The LORD of Hosts. He is the King of Glory. Selah. A Psalm of David.

⁸ “Who are these who fly like a cloud, and as the doves, to their windows?

⁹ “Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish, as at the beginning. So that they may bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the Name of the LORD your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.

¹⁰ “And the sons of strangers shall build up your walls. And their kings shall minister to you. For in My wrath, I struck you. But in My mercy, I had compassion on you.

¹¹ “Therefore, your gates shall be open continually. Neither day nor night shall they be shut, so that men may bring to you the riches of the Gentiles, and so that their kings may be brought.

¹² “For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you, shall perish. And those nations shall be utterly destroyed.

¹³ “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you—the fir tree, the elm and the box tree together—to beautify the place of My Sanctuary. For I will glorify the place of My Feet.

¹⁴ “Also, the sons of those who afflicted you shall come and bow to you. And all those who despised you shall fall down at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you, ‘The city of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.’

¹⁵ “Whereas, you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man came near, I will make you an eternal glory, and a joy, from generation to generation.

¹⁶ “You shall also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shall suck the breasts of kings. And you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

1 Since many have attempted to set forth the story of those things of which we are fully persuaded

² (exactly as they were delivered to us by those ministers of the Word who saw them themselves from the beginning),

³ it seemed good to me also - once I had carefully investigated all things from the beginning - to write to you of them from point to point, most noble Theophilus,

⁴ so that you might acknowledge the certainty of those things of which you have been instructed.