Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

100 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the Earth!

² Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before Him with joyfulness!

³ Know that the LORD is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

⁴ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, into His courts with rejoicing. Give Him thanks. Praise Him; and bless His Name.

⁵ For the LORD is good. His mercy is everlasting; and His truth is from generation to generation. A Psalm of David

¹⁷ “Also, you, My sheep,” thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the goats.

¹⁸ “Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down the rest of your pasture with your feet; and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?

¹⁹ “And My sheep eat that which you have trodden with your feet and drink that which you have fouled with your feet.”

²⁰ ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them: “Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

²¹ “Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,

²² “I will therefore help My sheep; and they shall no longer be plundered. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.

²³ “And I will set up a shepherd over them. And he shall feed them. My servant, David. He shall feed them; and he shall be their shepherd.

5 I encourage the elders among you. I am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and also a partaker of the Glory that shall be revealed.

² Feed the flock of God which depends on you. Care for it - not by compulsion, but voluntarily; not greedily, but eagerly;

³ not as though you were Lords over God’s estate, but that you may be examples to the flock.

⁴ And when that chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an incorruptible crown of Glory.

⁵ Likewise, you younger people, submit yourselves to the elders. And everyone submit yourselves one to another. Clothe yourselves inwardly in humility. For “God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.”