Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

80 Hear, O You Shepherd of Israel, You Who leads Joseph like sheep. Show Your brightness, You Who sits between the Cherubims.

² Stir up Your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh and come to help us.

³ Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, so that we may be saved.

⁴ O LORD God of Hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people?

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink with great measure.

⁶ You have made us a point of contention to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.

⁷ Turn us again, O God of Hosts. Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

¹⁷ Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, and upon the son of man whom You made strong for Your own self,

¹⁸ so we will not go back from You. Revive us, and we shall call upon Your Name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of Hosts! Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved. To him who excels upon Gittith: A Psalm committed to Asaph

7 Afterward, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies, all around,

² the king said to Nathan the Prophet, “Behold, now I dwell in a house of cedar trees, and the Ark of God remains within the curtains.”

³ Then Nathan said to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart. For the LORD is with you.”

⁴ And that same night, the Word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

⁵ “Go and tell my servant, David, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Shall you build Me a house for My dwelling?

⁶ ‘For I have dwelt in no house since the time that I brought the children of Israel out of Egypt until this day but have moved about in a Tent and Tabernacle.

⁷ ‘In every place I have moved about with all the children of Israel, have I ever spoken one word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I Commanded to feed My people Israel, saying, “Why did you not build Me a house of cedar trees?”’

⁸ “Now, therefore, so say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “I took you from the sheepfolds, following the sheep, so that you might be ruler over My people, over Israel.

⁹ “And I was with you wherever you have walked and have destroyed all your enemies out of your sight, and have made you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the Earth.

¹⁰ “Also, I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant it, so that they may dwell in a place of their own and no longer move. Nor shall wicked people trouble them anymore as before,

¹¹ “and since the time that I set judges over My people of Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Also, the LORD tells you that He will make you a house.

¹² “And when your days are fulfilled, you shall sleep with your fathers. And I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your body, and will establish his kingdom.

¹³ “He shall build a House for My Name. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

¹⁴ “I will be his father, and he shall be my son. And if he sins, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the plagues of the children of men.

¹⁵ “But my mercy shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I have put away before you.

¹⁶ “And your house shall be established before you, and your kingdom, forever. Your throne shall be established forever.”’”

¹⁷ According to all these words and according to all this vision, Nathan spoke thus to David.

²³ But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, as under guard, and locked up, until that faith which should be revealed.

²⁴ So that the Law was our tutor, bringing us to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

²⁵ But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

²⁶ For you are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For all you who were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Grecian. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs by promise.