Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy strength, and come and save us.

³ Turn us again, O God, and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁴ O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?

⁵ Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶ Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷ Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

¹⁷ Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.

¹⁸ So will we not go back from Thee; quicken us, and we will call upon Thy name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved!

¹⁸ Then went King David in and sat before the Lord, and he said: “Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?

¹⁹ And this was yet a small thing in Thy sight, O Lord God; but Thou hast spoken also of Thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?

²⁰ And what can David say more unto Thee? For Thou, Lord God, knowest Thy servant.

²¹ For Thy word’s sake and according to Thine own heart hast Thou done all these great things to make Thy servant know them.

²² Therefore Thou art great, O Lord God; for there is none like Thee, neither is there any God besides Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

4 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth in nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all.

² But he is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father.

³ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

⁴ But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

⁵ to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

⁶ And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father.”

⁷ Therefore thou art no more a servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.