Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

For Solomon.

72 O God, give the king thy judgments, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

² He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thine afflicted with judgment.

³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, by righteousness.

⁴ He will do justice to the afflicted of the people; he will save the children of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.

⁵ They shall fear thee as long as sun and moon endure, from generation to generation.

⁶ He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

⁷ In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace till the moon be no more.

¹⁸ Blessed be Jehovah Elohim, the God of Israel, who alone doeth wondrous things!

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever! and let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen, and Amen.

¹⁹ For the people shall dwell in Zion, at Jerusalem. Thou shalt weep no more; he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; as he heareth it, he will answer thee.

²⁰ And the Lord will give you the bread of adversity, and the water of oppression; yet thy teachers shall not be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.

²¹ And when ye turn to the right hand or when ye turn to the left, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.

²² And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it.

²³ And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;

²⁴ and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

²⁵ And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every hill that is lifted up, brooks [and] water-courses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

²⁶ And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the wound of their stroke.

¹⁶ And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.

¹⁷ The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in [the] land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,

¹⁸ and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.

¹⁹ And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

²⁰ And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty years.

²¹ And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.

²² And having removed him he raised up to them David for king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.

²³ Of this man's seed according to promise has God brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

²⁴ John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among the people] [the] baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵ And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? *I* am not [he]. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.