Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

145 O my God and King, I will extol You, and will bless Your Name forever and ever.

² I will bless You daily and praise Your Name forever and ever.

³ Great is the LORD, and most worthy to be praised. His greatness is incomprehensible.

⁴ Generation to generation shall praise Your works and declare Your power.

⁵ I will meditate on the beauty of Your glorious majesty and Your wonderful works.

⁶ And they shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness.

⁷ They shall break out into the mention of Your great goodness and shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

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

1 The burden of Nineveh. The Book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

¹⁴ “And the LORD has given a Commandment concerning you that no more of your name be scattered. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will make it your grave for you, for you are vile.

¹⁵ “Behold the feet of him who declares and publishes peace upon the mountains. O Judah, keep your solemn Feasts, perform your vows! For the wicked shall no longer pass through you. He is utterly cut off.”

2 The destroyer has come before your face. Man the ramparts! Watch the road! Harden yourselves! Increase your strength mightily!

² For the LORD has turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel. For the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vine branches.

13 This is the third time that I come to you. In the mouths of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.

² I told you before, and tell you now beforehand, as though I had been present a second time. So I write now - being absent from those who until now have sinned, and to all others - that if I come again, I will not spare anyone;

³ since you seek proof of Christ speaking in me, Who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.

⁴ For though He was crucified through His weakness, yet He lives through the power of God. And we, no doubt, are weak in Him. But we shall live with Him, through the power of God, toward you.