Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

116 I love Jehovah, for he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications;

² For he hath inclined his ear unto me, and I will call upon him during [all] my days.

³ The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:

⁴ Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: I beseech thee, Jehovah, deliver my soul.

¹² What shall I render unto Jehovah, [for] all his benefits toward me?

¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of Jehovah.

¹⁴ I will perform my vows unto Jehovah, yea, before all his people.

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his saints.

¹⁶ Yea, Jehovah! for I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

¹⁷ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of Jehovah.

¹⁸ I will perform my vows unto Jehovah, yea, before all his people,

¹⁹ In the courts of Jehovah's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah!

25 Jehovah, thou art my God: I will exalt thee; I will celebrate thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things; counsels of old [which are] faithfulness [and] truth.

² For thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built up.

³ Therefore shall the mighty people glorify thee, the city of terrible nations shall fear thee.

⁴ For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones [has been] as the storm [against] a wall.

⁵ Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [as] the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, [so] the song of the terrible ones is brought low.

⁸ whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom [though] not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with [the] glory,

⁹ receiving the end of your faith, [the] salvation of [your] souls.

¹⁰ Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;

¹¹ searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ which [was] in them pointed out, testifying before of the sufferings which [belonged] to Christ, and the glories after these.

¹² To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves but to you they ministered those things, which have now been announced to you by those who have declared to you the glad tidings by [the] Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, which angels desire to look into.