Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ Hear my voice, O LORD, when I cry. Have mercy, also, upon me and hear me.

⁸ When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart answered You, “O LORD, I will seek Your face.”

⁹ Do not hide, therefore, Your face from me, nor cast Your servant away in displeasure. You have been my succor; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹⁰ Though my father and my mother should forsake me, yet the LORD will gather me up.

¹¹ Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a right path, because of my enemies.

¹² Do not give me to the lust of my adversaries. For there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak cruelly.

¹³ I should have fainted, except I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

¹⁴ Hope in the LORD. Be strong, and He shall comfort Your heart; and trust in the LORD. A Psalm of David.

49 Then Jacob called his sons, and said, “Gather yourselves together, so that I may tell you what shall come to you in the last days.

² “Gather yourselves together and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel, your father.

⁸ “You, Judah. Your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons shall bow down before you.

⁹ “Judah, as a lion’s cub you shall come up from the prey, my son. He shall lie down and crouch as a lion, and as a lioness. Who shall stir him up?

¹⁰ “The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. And the people shall be gathered to him.

¹¹ “He shall bind his donkey foal to the Vine, and his donkey’s colt to the Best Vine. He shall wash His garment in wine, and His cloak in the blood of grapes.

¹² “His eyes shall be red with wine, and His teeth white with milk.

¹³ “Zebulun shall dwell by the seaside; and he shall be a haven for ships. And his border shall be to Sidon.

²¹ “Naphtali shall be a loosed deer, using beautiful words.

²² “Joseph shall be a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by the well side. His small boughs shall overrun the wall.

²³ “And the archers grieved him and shot and hated him.

²⁴ “But, his bow remained strong; and the hands of his arms were strengthened by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (by Whom was the Feeder appointed by the Stone of Israel),

²⁵ “by the God of your father, Who shall help you, and by the Almighty Who shall bless you with heavenly blessings from above, with blessings of the deep that lies beneath, with blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

²⁶ “The blessings of your father shall be stronger than the blessings of my elders. To the end of the hills of the world shall they be on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

⁶⁷ Then his father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,

⁶⁸ “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people!

⁶⁹ “And He has raised up the Horn of Salvation unto us, in the House of His servant David,

⁷⁰ “as He spoke by the mouth of His Holy Prophets. Who were, since the world began, saying,

⁷¹ ‘deliverance from our enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us.’

⁷² “So that He might show mercy towards our fathers, and remember His Holy Covenant -

⁷³ “the oath, which He swore to our father, Abraham -

⁷⁴ “that he would grant to us. So that we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, should serve him without fear

⁷⁵ “all the days of our life, in holiness and righteousness before him.

⁷⁶ “And you, child, shall be called the Prophet of the Most High. For you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

⁷⁷ “to give knowledge of salvation to His people, by the remission of their sins

⁷⁸ “through the tender mercy of our God (whereby the Dayspring from on high has visited us),

⁷⁹ “to give light to those who sit in darkness (and in the shadow of death), and to guide our feet into the way of peace.”