Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

146 Praise the LORD, O my soul!

² I will praise the LORD during my life. As long as I have any being, I will sing to my God.

³ Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, for there is no help in him.

⁴ His breath departs. He returns to his earth. Then, his thoughts perish.

⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help; whose hope is in the LORD his God,

⁶ Who made Heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that therein is. Who keeps his fidelity forever.

⁷ Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives bread to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

⁸ The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD raises up the crooked. The LORD loves the righteous.

⁹ The LORD keeps the strangers. He relieves the fatherless and widow; but He overthrows the way of the wicked.

¹⁰ The LORD shall reign forever! O Zion, your God endures from generation to generation. Praise the LORD!

¹⁴ “I have held My Peace a long time. I have been still, refraining Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in childbirth! I will destroy and devour at once.

¹⁵ “I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. And I will make the rivers islands. And I will dry up the pools.

¹⁶ “And I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know, lead them by paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them.

¹⁷ “They shall be repulsed and greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and say to the molten images, ‘You are our gods.’

¹⁸ “Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, so that you may see.

¹⁹ “Who is blind but My servant or deaf as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as the perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant,

²⁰ “seeing many things yet you do not keep them, opening the ears yet he does not hear?”

²¹ The LORD is willing for His righteousness sake, so that He may magnify the Law and exalt it.

⁹ For this reason, we also (since the day we heard of it) do not cease to pray for you and to desire that you might be fulfilled with knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

¹⁰ so that you might walk worthily of the Lord and please Him in all things, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹¹ strengthened with all might through His glorious power, leading to all patience and endurance with joy;

¹² giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

¹³ Who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has transferred us into the Kingdom of His dear Son

¹⁴ (in Whom we have redemption through His blood; that is, the forgiveness of sins).