Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

20 The LORD hear you on the day of trouble. The Name of the God of Jacob defend you;

² send you help from the Sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion.

³ Let Him remember all your offerings and turn your burnt offerings into ashes. Selah.

⁴ Grant you according to your heart and fulfill all your purpose,

⁵ so that we may rejoice in your salvation—and set up the banner in the Name of our God—when the LORD shall perform all your petitions.

⁶ Now I know that the LORD will help His anointed; and will hear him from His Sanctuary, by the mighty help of His right hand.

⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses. But we will remember the Name of the LORD our God.

⁸ They are brought down and fallen. But we are risen and stand upright.

⁹ Save, LORD! Let the king hear us on the day that we call! To him who excels: A Psalm of David.

26 On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, God shall set salvation for walls and bulwarks.

² “Open the gates so that the righteous nation, which keeps the truth, may enter in.

³ “By an assured purpose will You preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in You.

⁴ “Trust in the LORD forever, For in the LORD God is strength forevermore.

⁵ “For He will bring down those who dwell on high, The high city He will lay low, He will cast it down to the ground and bring it to dust.

⁶ “The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

⁷ “The way of the just is righteousness, You will make equal the righteous path of the just.

⁸ “Also, we, O LORD, have waited for You in the way of Your judgments. The desire of our soul is to Your Name and to the remembrance of You.

⁹ “With my soul have I desired You in the night. And with my spirit within me will I seek You in the morning. For seeing Your judgments on the Earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.

¹⁶ Therefore, we do not faint. But though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed daily.

¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

¹⁸ While we look, not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary. But the things which are not seen are eternal.