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.

¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;

¹⁶ thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, [I], the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

¹⁸ I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs.

¹⁹ I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together;

²⁰ that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

¹⁴ But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

¹⁵ But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,

¹⁶ for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the [message of] glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ I have therefore [whereof to] boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for [the] obedience of [the] nations, by word and deed,

¹⁹ in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

²⁰ and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

²¹ but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.