Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

72 Give the king Thy judgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

² Then shall he judge Thy people with righteousness, and Thy poor with judgment.

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

⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people; he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

⁵ They shall fear Thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

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

⁷ In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord God, 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; when He shall hear it, He will answer thee.

²⁰ And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.

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

²² Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver and the ornament of thy molten images of gold. Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, “Get thee hence.”

²³ Then shall He give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground therewith, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

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

²⁵ And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

²⁶ Moreover 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 the Lord bindeth up the breach of His people and healeth the stroke of their wound.

¹⁶ Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said: “Men of Israel and ye that fear God, give audience!

¹⁷ The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm He brought them out of it.

¹⁸ And for about forty years, He suffered their ways in the wilderness.

¹⁹ And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He divided their land among them by lot.

²⁰ And after that, He gave unto them judges for about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

²¹ And afterward they desired a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for the space of forty years.

²² And when He had removed him, He raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after Mine own heart, who shall fulfill all My will.’

²³ Of this man’s seed hath God, according to His promise, raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus.

²⁴ John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵ And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘Whom think ye that I am? I am not He. But behold, there cometh One after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.’