Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

21 The king shall joy in thy strength, Jehovah; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice.

² Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

³ For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴ He asked life of thee; thou gavest [it] him, length of days for ever and ever.

⁵ His glory is great through thy salvation; majesty and splendour hast thou laid upon him.

⁶ For thou hast made him to be blessings for ever; thou hast filled him with joy by thy countenance.

⁷ For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.

⁸ Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

⁹ Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them:

¹⁰ Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

¹¹ For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

¹² For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

¹³ Be thou exalted, Jehovah, in thine own strength: we will sing and celebrate thy power.

24 Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

² And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.

³ The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

⁴ The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.

⁵ And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.

⁶ Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.

⁷ The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;

⁸ the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

⁹ They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰ The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.

¹¹ There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;

¹² desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin.

¹³ For so will it be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-gleanings when the vintage is done.

¹⁴ These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for the majesty of Jehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

¹⁵ Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.

¹⁶ From the end of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous! And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

4 For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

² For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³ For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

⁴ that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

⁵ (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

⁶ not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

⁷ For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

⁸ He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

⁹ Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

¹⁰ For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

¹¹ and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,

¹² that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.