Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy.

⁹ The LORD is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works.

¹⁰ All Your works praise You, O LORD, and Your Saints bless You.

¹¹ They show the glory of Your Kingdom, and speak of Your power,

¹² to cause His power and the glorious renown of His Kingdom to be known to the sons of men.

¹³ Your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all ages.

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are ready to fall.

4 And the Angel that talked with me came back and awakened me, as a man who is raised out of his sleep,

² and said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I have looked, and behold, a candlestick, all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps within, and seven pipes to the lamps which were on top,

³ “and two olive trees over it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon its left side.”

⁴ And I answered and spoke to the Angel that talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?

⁵ Then the Angel that talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”

⁶ Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is the Word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Neither by an army nor by strength, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of Hosts.

⁷ ‘Who are you, O great mountain, before Zerubbabel? A plain! And he shall bring forth its headstone, with shoutings, “Grace! Grace to it!”’”

²¹ That same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, “I confess to You, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because it so pleased You.

²² “All things are given to Me by My Father. And no one knows Who the Son is, except the Father; nor Who the Father is, except the Son and him to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him.”

²³ And He turned to His disciples, and said secretly, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.

²⁴ “For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.”