Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people murmur in vain?

² The kings of the Earth stand together. And the Princes are assembled together against the LORD, and against His Christ.

³ Let us break their bands and cast their cords from us.

⁴ But he who dwells in the heavens shall laugh. The LORD shall hold them in derision.

⁵ Then shall He speak to them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure, saying,

⁶ “I have set My King upon Zion, My Holy Mountain.”

⁷ “I will declare the decree. The LORD has said to me, ‘You are My Son. This day have I begotten You.

⁸ “Ask of Me, and I shall give You the heathen for Your inheritance, and the ends of the Earth for Your possession.

⁹ “You shall crush them with a scepter of iron; and break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”

¹⁰ Be wise now, therefore, you kings. Be learned, you judges of the Earth.

¹¹ Serve the LORD in fear; and rejoice in trembling.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish on the way when His wrath shall suddenly burn. Blessed are all who trust in Him. A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.

²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you. For you have sold yourself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD.

²¹ ‘Behold, I will bring misery upon you, and will take away your posterity, and will cut off every male in Israel from Ahab, him who is shut up as well as him who is left in Israel.

²² ‘And I will make your House like the House of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the House of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked and made Israel sin.’”

²³ And also, the LORD spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

²⁴ “The dogs shall eat him of Ahab’s stock who dies in the city. And him who dies in the fields shall the birds of the air eat.”

²⁵ (But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, and whom Jezebel, his wife, provoked.

²⁶ For he had acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.)

²⁷ Now, when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth upon himself, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

²⁸ And the Word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:

²⁹ “Do you see how Ahab is humbled before Me? Because he submits himself before Me, I will not bring that misery in his days. But I will bring misery upon his House in his sons’ days.”

⁹ And as they came down from the mountain, He instructed them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead again.

¹⁰ So they kept that matter to themselves and asked each another what the ‘rising from the dead again’ might mean.

¹¹ Also they asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

¹² And He answered, and said to them, “Elijah truly shall come first, and restore all things. And as it is written of the Son of Man, He must suffer many things and be rejected.

¹³ “But I say to you, that Elijah has come. And they have done to him whatever they would, as it is written of him.”