Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees.

121 I lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: whence shall my help come?

² My help [cometh] from Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth.

³ He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, he that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand;

⁶ The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

⁷ Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; he will keep thy soul.

⁸ Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth and for evermore.

51 Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock [whence] ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye were digged.

² Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for I called him when he was alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

³ For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

³ I am thankful to God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

⁴ earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

⁵ calling to mind the unfeigned faith which [has been] in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.

⁶ For which cause I put thee in mind to rekindle the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.