Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
21 The king shall rejoice in Your strength, O LORD. Indeed, how greatly shall he rejoice in Your salvation!
2 You have given him his heart’s desire and have not denied the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For You meet him with liberal blessings and set a crown of pure gold upon his head.
4 He asked life of You, and You gave him a long life forever and ever.
5 His glory is great in Your salvation. Dignity and honor You have laid upon him.
6 For You have set him as most blessed forever. You have made him glad with the joy of Your countenance.
7 Because the king trusts in the LORD, and in the mercy of the Most High, he shall not slide.
8 Your hand shall find out all Your enemies. And Your right hand shall find out those who hate You.
9 You shall make them like a fiery oven in time of Your anger. The LORD shall destroy them in His wrath. And the fire shall devour them.
10 You shall destroy their fruit from the Earth, and their seed from the children of men.
11 For they intended evil against You and imagined mischief. But they shall not prevail.
12 Therefore, You shall make them turn their back. And You shall make ready the strings of Your bow against their faces.
13 Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength. So, will we sing and praise Your power. To him who excels upon Aijeleth Hashahar: A Psalm of David.
24 Behold, the LORD lays waste to the Earth and makes it empty. He turns it upside down and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And as with people, so it shall be with priest; as with servant, so with master; as with maid, so with mistress; as with buyer, so with seller; as with lender, so with borrower; as with creditor, so with debtor.
3 The Earth shall be completely emptied and utterly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this Word.
4 The Earth laments and fades away. The world languishes and withers. The proud people of the Earth are weakened.
5 The Earth also deceives, because of its inhabitants. For they transgressed the Laws. They changed the Ordinances, broke the everlasting Covenant.
6 Therefore, the curse has devoured the Earth, and its inhabitants are desolate. Therefore, the inhabitants of the land are burned up. And few men are left.
7 The wine fails. The vine has no might. All who were of merry heart, mourn.
8 The rejoicing of tambourines ends. The noise of those who rejoice stops. The joy of the harp ceases.
9 They shall not drink wine with joy. Strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of vanity has broken down. Every house is shut up, so that no one may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the world has gone away.
12 In the cities, desolation is left. And the gate is stricken with destruction.
13 Surely, thus it shall be in the midst of the Earth, among the people, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the grapes when the vintage has ended.
14 They shall lift up their voice. They shall shout for the magnificence of the LORD. They shall rejoice from the sea.
15 Therefore, praise the LORD in the valleys, the Name of the LORD God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.
16 From the outermost part of the Earth we have heard praises, glory to the just. And I said, “My leanness! My leanness! Woe to me! The transgressors have offended. Yea, the transgressors have grievously offended.”
4 Furthermore, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, brothers, that you increase more and more in how you ought to walk and to please God (as you have received from us).
2 For you know what Commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification. And that you should abstain from fornication;
4 so that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in holiness and honor,
5 not in the passion of lust (as the Gentiles do, who do not know God),
6 so that no one oppresses or defrauds his brother in any matter. For the Lord is Avenger of all such things, as we also have told you previously, and testified.
7 For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
8 Therefore, the one who ignores these things, does not ignore man, but God (Who has also given His Holy Spirit).
9 But concerning brotherly love, you do not need me to write to you. For you are taught by God to love one another.
10 And, indeed, you do so to all the brothers throughout all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to increase more and more
11 and to earnestly endeavor to be quiet and mind your own business; and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 so that you may behave honorably toward those who are outside, and that you lack nothing.
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