Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

121 I will lift up my eyes to the mountain, from where my help shall come.

² My help comes from the LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth.

³ He will not allow your foot to slip. He Who keeps you will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, He Who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ The LORD is your Keeper. The LORD is your shadow at your right hand.

⁶ The Sun shall not strike you by day, nor the Moon by night.

⁷ The LORD shall preserve you from all evil. He shall keep your soul.

⁸ The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in, from henceforth and forever. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David

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.

³ I thank God, Whom I serve with pure conscience (as my forefathers did), remembering you in my prayers night and day, without ceasing;

⁴ desiring to see you, mindful of your tears, so that I may be filled with joy

⁵ when I call to remembrance the sincere faith that is in you (which dwelt first in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, and assuredly dwells in you also).

⁶ Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you by the laying on of my hands.

⁷ For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of self-control.