Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who declares and publishes peace, who declares good tidings and publishes salvation, saying to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

⁸ The voice of your watchmen shall be heard. They shall lift up their voices and shout together. For they shall see eye to eye when the LORD shall restore Zion.

⁹ O, you desolate places of Jerusalem, be glad and rejoice together! For the LORD has comforted His people! He has redeemed Jerusalem!

¹⁰ The LORD has made His Holy Arm bare in the sight of all the Gentiles. And all the ends of the Earth shall see the salvation of our God.

98 Sing to the LORD a new song; for He has done marvelous things! His right hand and His holy arm have gotten Him the victory.

² The LORD declared His salvation. He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.

³ He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the House of Israel. All the ends of the Earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Sing loud to the LORD, all the Earth! Cry out and rejoice; and sing praises!

⁵ Sing praise to the LORD upon the harp, upon the harp with a singing voice.

⁶ With shofars and sound of trumpets sing loud before the LORD the King.

⁷ Let the sea roar and all that therein is, the world and those who dwell therein.

⁸ Let the floods clap their hands! Let the mountains rejoice together

⁹ before the LORD! For He has come to judge the Earth. With righteousness shall He judge the world, and the people with equity.

1 Long ago, at various times and in diverse ways, God spoke to our fathers by the Prophets. In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son,

² Whom He has made heir of all things. Through Whom He also made the world.

³ He, being the brightness of the Glory and the engraved form of His person and bearing up all things by His mighty Word, has purged our sins through Himself. And He sits at the right hand of the Majesty in the Highest Places.

⁴ And He is made so much more excellent than the angels, inasmuch as He has obtained a more excellent Name than they.

⁵ For to which of the angels has He said at any time, “You are My Son. This day I begat You.”? And again, “I will be His Father, and He shall be My Son.”?

⁶ And again, when He brings in His first begotten Son into the world, He says, “And let all the angels of God worship Him.”

⁷ And of the angels, He says, “He makes the spirits His messengers, and His ministers a flame of fire.”

⁸ But to the Son, He says, “O God, Your throne is forever and ever. The scepter of Your Kingdom is a scepter of righteousness.

⁹ “You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God - even Your God - has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your associates.”10 And, “You, Lord, established the Earth in the beginning. And the heavens are the works of Your hands.

¹¹ “They shall perish, but You remain. And they all shall grow old, as does a garment.

¹² “And as a cloak, You shall fold them up. And they shall be changed. But You are the same. And Your years shall not fail.”

1 In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.

⁴ In Him was life. And that life was the Light of man.

⁵ And the Light shines in the darkness. And the darkness has not understood it.

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

⁷ One who came for a witness, to testify about the Light; so that through him all might believe.

⁸ He was not the Light, but bore witness of the Light;

⁹ that is, the true Light, which, coming into the world, lights all mankind.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

¹¹ He came to His own, and His own received Him not.

¹² But as many as received Him, to them He gave power to be children of God, to those who believe in His Name,

¹³ who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we saw the Glory of Him, as the Glory of the Only Begotten One of the Father, full of grace and truth.