Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)
Psalm 90
Eternal God and Mortal Man
A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
1 Lord, You have been our refuge[a]
in every generation.(A)
2 Before the mountains were born,
before You gave birth to the earth and the world,
from eternity to eternity, You are God.(B)
3 You return mankind to the dust,
saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”(C)
4 For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.(D)
5 You end their lives;[b] they sleep.(E)
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
6 in the morning it sprouts and grows;
by evening it withers and dries up.(F)
9 For all our days ebb away under Your wrath;
we end our years like a sigh.(A)
10 Our lives last[a] seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are[b] struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.(B)
11 Who understands the power of Your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.(C)
Announcement of the End
7 And the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel:
An end! The end has come
on the four corners of the land.(A)
3 The end is now upon you;
I will send My anger against you
and judge you according to your ways.
I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
4 I will not look on you with pity or spare you,(B)
but I will punish you for your ways(C)
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”(D)
5 This is what the Lord God says:
Look, one disaster after another is coming!(E)
6 An end has come; the end has come!
It has awakened against you.
Look, it is coming!
7 Doom[a] has come on you,(F)
inhabitants of the land.
The time has come; the day is near.
There will be panic on the mountains
and not celebration.(G)
8 I will pour out My wrath on you very soon;(H)
I will exhaust My anger against you
and judge you according to your ways.
I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
9 I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know
that it is I, Yahweh, who strikes.
The Fourth Bowl
8 The fourth[a] poured out his bowl on the sun. He[b] was given the power[c] to burn people with fire, 9 and people were burned by the intense heat. So they blasphemed the name of God,(A) who had the power[d] over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory.
The Fifth Bowl
10 The fifth[e] poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast,(B) and his kingdom was plunged into darkness.(C) People[f] gnawed their tongues because of their pain 11 and blasphemed the God of heaven(D) because of their pains and their sores, yet they did not repent of their actions.
The Sixth Bowl
12 The sixth[g] poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates,(E) and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13 Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs(F) coming from the dragon’s mouth,(G) from the beast’s mouth,(H) and from the mouth of the false prophet.(I) 14 For they are spirits of demons performing signs,(J) who travel to the kings of the whole world to assemble them for the battle of the great day of God, the Almighty.(K)
15 “Look, I am coming like a thief. The one who is alert and remains clothed[h](L) so that he may not go around naked and people see his shame(M) is blessed.”(N)
16 So they assembled them at the place called in Hebrew, Armagedon.[i][j](O)
The Seventh Bowl
17 Then the seventh[k] poured out his bowl into the air,[l] and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary[m](P) from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18 There were flashes of lightning and rumblings of thunder. And a severe earthquake occurred like no other since man has been on the earth—so great was the quake.(Q) 19 The great city(R) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations[n] fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; He gave her the cup filled with the wine of His fierce anger.(S) 20 Every island fled, and the mountains disappeared.[o](T) 21 Enormous hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds,[p] fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God(U) for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.(V)
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