Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that announceth glad tidings, that publisheth peace; that announceth glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

⁸ —The voice of thy watchmen, they lift up the voice, they sing aloud together; for they shall see eye to eye, when Jehovah shall bring again Zion.

⁹ Break forth, sing aloud together, waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah comforteth his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

A Psalm.

98 Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: for he hath done wondrous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath wrought salvation for him.

² Jehovah hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the nations.

³ He hath remembered his loving-kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms.

⁵ Sing psalms unto Jehovah with the harp: with the harp, and the voice of a song;

⁶ With trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.

⁷ Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein;

⁸ Let the floods clap [their] hands; let the mountains sing for joy together,

⁹ Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

1 God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets,

² at the end of these days has spoken to us in [the person of the] Son, whom he has established heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

³ who being [the] effulgence of his glory and [the] expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

⁴ taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

⁵ For to which of the angels said he ever, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee? and again, *I* will be to him for father, and *he* shall be to me for son?

⁶ and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.

⁷ And as to the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire;

⁸ but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, [is] to the age of the age, and a sceptre of uprightness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.

⁹ Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions.

¹⁰ And, *Thou* in the beginning, Lord, hast founded the earth, and works of thy hands are the heavens.

¹¹ They shall perish, but *thou* continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,

¹² and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but *thou* art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.

1 In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² *He* was in the beginning with God.

³ All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.

⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁵ And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, his name John.

⁷ He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.

⁸ *He* was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light.

⁹ The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through 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 gave he [the] right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

¹³ who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;