Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees.

134 Behold, bless Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, who by night stand in the house of Jehovah.

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.

³ Jehovah, the maker of heavens and earth, bless thee out of Zion.

³² And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:

³³ hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.

³⁴ Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

³⁵ For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;

³⁶ but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

9 Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;

² she hath slaughtered her cattle, she hath mingled her wine, she hath also prepared her table;

³ she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,

⁴ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,

⁵ Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled.

⁶ Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.

2 Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

² as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

³ if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good.