Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
BOOK 4
From Everlasting to Everlasting, You Are God
A Prayer of [a]Moses, the man of God.
90 Lord, You have been our [b](A)dwelling place from generation to generation.
2 Before (B)the mountains were born
[c]Or You (C)brought forth the earth and the world,
Even (D)from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
3 You (E)turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O sons of men.”
4 For (F)a thousand years in Your sight
Are like (G)yesterday when it passes by,
[d]Or as a (H)watch in the night.
5 You (I)have [e]swept them away like a flood, they [f](J)fall asleep;
In the morning they are like (K)grass which [g]sprouts anew.
6 In the morning it (L)blossoms and [h]sprouts anew;
Toward evening it (M)withers away and (N)dries up.
9 For (A)all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a [a]sigh.
10 As for the days of our [b]life, [c]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to might, (B)eighty years,
Yet their pride is but (C)labor and wickedness;
For soon it is gone and we (D)fly away.
11 Who knows the (E)power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the (F)fear [d]that is due You?
10 ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the (A)rod has blossomed; arrogance has budded. 11 Violence [a]has grown into a rod of (B)wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their multitude, none of their (C)moaning, nor anything eminent among them. 12 The (D)time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the (E)buyer be glad nor the seller mourn; for (F)wrath is against all their multitude. 13 Indeed, the seller will not (G)return to himself [b]what he sold as long as [c]they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not return empty, nor will any of them strengthen his life by his iniquity.
14 ‘They have (H)blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all [d]their multitude. 15 The (I)sword is outside, and the plague and the famine are inside. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also devour those in the city. 16 Even when their survivors (J)escape, they will be on the mountains like (K)doves of the valleys, all of them (L)moaning, each over his own iniquity. 17 All (M)hands will hang limp, and all knees will [e]become like water. 18 They will (N)gird themselves with sackcloth, and (O)horror will cover them; and shame will be on all faces and (P)baldness on all their heads. 19 They will (Q)throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an impure thing; their (R)silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the fury of Yahweh. They cannot satisfy their soul, nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.
The Temple Profaned
20 They [f]transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and (S)they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an impure thing to them. 21 I will give it into the hands of the (T)foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it. 22 I will also turn My (U)face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.
23 ‘(V)Make the chain, for the land is full of (W)judgments that promote bloodshed, and the city is (X)full of violence. 24 Therefore, I will bring the most evil of the (Y)nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the (Z)pride of the strong ones cease, and their (AA)holy places will be profaned. 25 Anguish has come, and they will seek (AB)peace, but there will be none. 26 (AC)Disaster will come upon disaster, and (AD)report will be added to report; then they will seek a (AE)vision from a prophet, but the (AF)law will be lost from the priest and (AG)counsel from the elders. 27 The king will mourn, the prince will be (AH)clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will be dismayed. According to their way I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am Yahweh.’”
43 “(A)Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and (B)the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”
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