Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

72 Give Your judgments to the King, O God, and Your righteousness to the King’s Son.

² He shall judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with equity.

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

⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall subdue the oppressor.

⁵ They shall fear You as long as the Sun and Moon endure, from generation to generation.

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

⁷ In His days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moon endures.

¹⁸ Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who only does wondrous things.

¹⁹ And blessed be His glorious Name forever. And let all the Earth be filled with His Glory. So be it, even so be it.

¹⁹ Surely a people shall dwell in Zion. In Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will certainly have mercy upon you at the voice of your cry. When He hears you, He will answer you.

²⁰ And when the LORD has given you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, your rain shall be kept back no more. But your eyes shall see your rain.

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

²² And you shall pollute the covering of the images of silver, and the rich ornament of your images of gold, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth. And you shall say to it, “Get away!”

²³ Then He shall give rain to your seed when you shall sow the ground, and bread from the increase of the Earth. And it shall be fat and rich. On that day, your cattle shall be fed in large pastures.

²⁴ The oxen, also, and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean fodder, which is winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

²⁵ And upon every high mountain and upon every high hill there shall be rivers, streams of waters, on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall 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, and like the light of seven days, on the day that the LORD shall bind up the breach of His people and heal the stroke of their wound.

¹⁶ Then Paul stood up and beckoned with the hand, and said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, hear me!

¹⁷ “The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt in the land of Egypt. And with a high arm, He brought them out of there.

¹⁸ “And for about forty years, He endured their manners in the wilderness.

¹⁹ “And He destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan and divided their land to them by lot.

²⁰ “Then afterward, He gave them Judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until the time of Samuel the Prophet.

²¹ “So after that, they desired a King. And God gave them Saul (the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin) for forty years.

²² “And after He had taken him away, he raised up David to be their King. Of whom He testified, saying, ‘I have found David of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all things that I will.

²³ “Of this man’s seed, God has raised up the Savior Jesus, according to His promise to Israel.

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

²⁵ “And when John had fulfilled his course, he said, ‘Whom do you think that I am? I am not He. But behold, there comes One after me, whose shoe of His feet I am not worthy to untie.’