Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
5 O LORD, even the heavens shall praise Your wondrous work; indeed, Your truth, in the Congregation of the saints.
6 For who is equal to the LORD in the heaven? Who is like the LORD among the sons of the gods?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be reverenced above all who are around Him.
8 O, LORD God of Hosts, Who is a mighty LORD like You? And Your truth surrounds You.
9 You rule the raging of the sea. When the waves thereof arise, You still them.
10 You have beaten down Rahab as a man slain. You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
11 The heavens are Yours. The Earth is also Yours. You have laid the foundation of the world and all that therein is.
12 You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your Name.
13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong. Your right hand is high.
14 Righteousness and equity are the establishment of Your throne. Mercy and truth go before Your face.
15 Blessed is the people who can rejoice in You. They shall walk in the light of Your countenance, O LORD.
16 They shall rejoice continually in Your Name; and in Your righteousness they shall exalt themselves.
17 For You are the glory of their strength; and by Your favor our horns shall be exalted.
18 For our shield belongs to the LORD, and our King to the Holy One of Israel.
19 You spoke, then, in a vision to Your holy one, and said, “I have laid help upon one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 “I have found David, My servant. With My holy oil have I anointed him.
21 “Therefore, My hand shall be established with him and My arm shall strengthen him.
22 “The enemy shall not oppress him, nor shall the wicked hurt him.
23 “But I will destroy his foes before his face and plague those who hate him.
24 “My truth also, and My mercy, shall be with him; and in My Name shall his horn be exalted.
25 “I will also set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.
26 “He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
27 “Also, I will make him My firstborn, higher than the kings of the Earth.
28 “I will keep My mercy for him for evermore; and My Covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 “I will also make his Seed endure forever, and his Throne as the days of Heaven.
30 “If his children forsake My Law and do not walk in My Judgments,
31 “if they break my statutes and do not keep My Commandments,
32 “then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.
33 “Yet, I will not take My lovingkindness from him, nor will I falsify My truth.
34 “Nor will I break My Covenant, nor alter the thing that has gone out of My lips.
35 “I have sworn once, by My holiness, that I will not fail David.
36 “His Seed shall endure forever; and his Throne shall be as the Sun before Me.
37 “He shall be established forevermore as the Moon, and as a faithful witness in the heaven.” Selah.
51 “Hear Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock from which you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug.
2 “Consider Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone and blessed him and increased him.”
3 Surely the LORD shall comfort Zion. He shall comfort all her desolations, and He shall make her wastelands like Eden, and her wilderness like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness, praise, and the voice of singing shall be found therein.
4 “Listen to Me, My people. And give ear to Me, O My people. For a Law shall proceed from Me. And I will bring forth My Judgment for the light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near. My salvation goes forth. And My Arm shall judge the people. The isles shall wait for Me, and shall trust in My Arm.
6 “Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look upon the Earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke. And the Earth shall grow old like a garment. And those who dwell therein shall perish in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever. And My righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law. Do not fear the reproach of men or be afraid of their rebukes.
8 “For the moth shall eat them up like a garment. And the worm shall eat them like wood. But My righteousness shall be forever. And My salvation from generation to generation.”
9 Rise up! Rise up and put on strength, O Arm of the LORD! Rise up, as long ago in the generations of the world. Are not You the same One Who has cut Rahab to pieces and wounded the dragon?
10 Are not You the same One Who has dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, making the depth of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
11 Therefore, the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with joy to Zion. And everlasting joy shall be upon their head. They shall obtain joy and gladness. Sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 “I, even I, Am He Who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear a mortal man, and the son of man, who shall be made like grass?
13 “And you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker—Who has spread out the heavens and laid the foundations of the Earth—and you have feared continually, all day, because of the rage of the oppressor who is ready to destroy. Where is the rage of the oppressor now?
14 “The captive’s exile hastens, so that he may be freed and not die in the pit and that his bread would not fail.
15 “And I am the LORD your God, Who divided the sea when its waves roared. The LORD of Hosts is His Name.
16 “And I have put My Words in your mouth and have defended you in the shadow of My Hand, so that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundation of the Earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
15 But Jesus, knowing of it, departed from there. And great multitudes followed Him. And He healed them all,
16 and warned them that they should not make Him known.
17 So that which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled, which says,
18 “Behold My Servant, Whom I have chosen; My Beloved in Whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him. And He shall show judgment to the Gentiles.
19 “He shall not strive, nor cry, nor shall anyone hear His voice in the streets.
20 “A bruised reed shall He not break. And a smoldering wick shall He not quench, till He brings forth judgment unto victory.
21 “And in His Name shall the Gentiles trust.”
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