Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Yahweh’s Greatness Is Unsearchable
A Praise of David.
Aleph
Beth
2 Every day I will bless You,
And I will (D)praise Your name forever and ever.
Gimel
Daleth
4 One (G)generation shall laud Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty deeds.
He
5 On the (H)glorious [a]splendor of Your majesty
And (I)on the words of Your wondrous deeds, I will muse.
Vav
Zayin
7 They shall pour forth the memory of Your (L)abundant goodness
And will (M)shout joyfully of Your righteousness.
Heth
8 Yahweh is (N)gracious and compassionate;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.
3 The shields of [a]his mighty men are colored red,
The valiant men are dressed in (A)[b]scarlet,
The chariots are enveloped in [c]flashing steel
[d]When he is set up to march,
And the cypress (B)spears are brandished.
4 The (C)chariots race madly in the streets;
They rush wildly in the [e]squares;
Their appearance is like torches;
They dash to and fro like lightning flashes.
5 He remembers his (D)mighty ones;
They (E)stumble in their march;
They hurry to her wall,
And the [f]mantelet is set up.
6 The gates of the rivers are opened,
And the palace is melted away.
7 So it stands fixed:
She is exiled, she is carried away,
And her maidservants are (F)moaning like the sound of doves,
(G)Beating on their hearts.
8 Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,
Now they are fleeing;
“Stand! Stand!”
But (H)no one [g]turns back.
9 Plunder the silver!
Plunder the (I)gold!
And there is no limit to the treasure—
[h]Wealth from every kind of desirable object.
10 She is (J)emptied! Yes, she is emptied out and eviscerated!
(K)Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in all their loins,
And all their (L)faces [i]turn pale!
11 Where is the den of the lions
And the feeding place of the (M)young lions,
Where the lion, lioness, and lion’s cub prowled,
With nothing to make them tremble?
12 The lion tore enough for its cubs
And strangled enough for its lionesses
And filled its lairs with torn up prey
And its dens with torn up flesh.
13 “Behold, (N)I am against you,” declares Yahweh of hosts. “And I will (O)burn up her chariots in smoke, and a sword will devour your young lions; and I will (P)cut off your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard.”
5 (A)Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; (B)examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize about yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you [a](C)fail the test? 6 But I hope that you will realize that we ourselves [b]do not fail the test. 7 Now we pray to God that you do no wrong, not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may [c]appear unapproved. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we rejoice when we ourselves are (D)weak but you are strong. This we also pray for, [d]that you be (E)restored. 10 For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present (F)I need not use (G)severity, in accordance with the (H)authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
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