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

¹⁸ Then, King David went in and sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD? And what is my house, that You have brought me here?

¹⁹ “And yet, this was a small thing in Your sight, O Lord GOD. Therefore, You have also spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come. And this is the manner of man, O Lord GOD.

²⁰ “And what more can David say to You? For You, Lord GOD, know Your servant.

²¹ “For Your Word’s sake, and according to Your own Heart, have You done all these great things, to make them known to Your servant.

²² “Therefore, You are great, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You. Nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

4 Then I say that the heir (as long as he is a child) differs nothing from a servant - though he be Lord of all -

² but 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 basic principles of the world.

⁴ But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman and made under the Law;

⁵ so that He might redeem those who were under the Law (that we might receive adoption as sons).

⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, who cries, “Abba, Father!”

⁷ Therefore, you are a servant no more, but a son. Now, if you are a son, you are also the heir of God, through Christ.