Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
60 Arise! Be bright! For your light has come! And the Glory of the LORD has risen upon you!
2 For behold, darkness shall cover the Earth, and gross darkness the people. But the LORD shall arise upon you, and His Glory shall be seen upon you.
3 And the Gentiles shall walk in Your light, and kings at the brightness of Your rising up.
4 “Lift up your eyes all around and behold. All these are gathered and come to you. Your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nourished at your side.
5 “Then you shall see and shine. Your heart shall be astonished and enlarged, because the multitude of the sea shall be converted to you, and the riches of the Gentiles shall come to you.
6 “The multitude of camels shall cover you, and the dromedaries of Midian and of Ephah. All those of Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and incense, and show forth the praises of the LORD.
72 Give Your judgments to the King, O God, and Your righteousness to the King’s Son.
2 He shall judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with equity.
3 The mountains and the hills shall bring peace to the people by justice.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall subdue the oppressor.
5 They shall fear You as long as the Sun and Moon endure, from generation to generation.
6 He shall come down like the rain upon the mown grass, as the showers that water the Earth.
7 In His days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moon endures.
10 The kings of Tarshish, and of the isles, shall bring presents. The kings of Sheba, and Seba, shall bring gifts.
11 Indeed, all kings shall worship Him. All nations shall serve Him.
12 For He shall deliver the poor when He cries, the needy also, and he who has no helper.
13 He shall be merciful to the poor and needy and shall preserve the souls of the poor.
14 He shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence, and their blood shall be dear in His sight.
3 For this reason, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.
2 If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God, which is given to me toward you.
3 So that God, by revelation, has shown this mystery to me (as I briefly wrote before;
4 by which, when you read it, you may know my understanding of the mystery of Christ,
5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other ages as it is now revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit),
6 So that the Gentiles should also be inheritors of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ, by the Gospel;
7 whereof I am made a minister by the gift of the grace of God (given to me through the working of His power).
8 To me, the least of all saints, is this grace given, so that I would preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 and make clear to all what the stewardship of the mystery is (which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, Who has created all things by Jesus Christ);
10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to principalities and powers in Heavenly realms,
11 according to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord;
12 By Him we have boldness and confident access, through faith in Him.
2 When Jesus then was born at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of Herod the King, behold, wise men came from the east to Jerusalem,
2 saying, “Where is the King of the Jews Who is born? For we have seen His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
3 When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
4 And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where Christ should be born.
5 And they said to him, “At Bethlehem in Judea. For so it is written by the Prophet,
6 ‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the Princes of Judah. For out of you shall come the Governor Who shall feed My people, Israel.’”
7 Then Herod secretly called the wise men and carefully inquired of them the time that the star had appeared.
8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go, and search carefully for the Child. And when you have found Him, bring me word, that I may come also, and worship Him.”
9 So when they had heard the king, they departed. And lo, the star which they had seen in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over the place where the Child was.
10 And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with an exceedingly great joy.
11 And they went into the house, and found the Child (with Mary, his mother), and fell down and worshipped Him, and opened their treasures; and presented gifts to Him: gold and frankincense and myrrh.
12 And after they were warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another way.
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