Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

20 Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob protect thee;

² May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

³ Remember all thine oblations, and accept thy burnt-offering; Selah.

⁴ Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy counsels.

⁵ We will triumph in thy salvation, and in the name of our God will we set up our banners. Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions!

⁶ Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; he answereth him from the heavens of his holiness, with the saving strength of his right hand.

⁷ Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we of the name of Jehovah our God.

⁸ They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.

⁹ Save, Jehovah! Let the king answer us in the day we call.

⁷ And they told it to Jotham, and he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Hearken to me, ye citizens of Shechem, that God may hearken to you.

⁸ The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive-tree, Reign over us.

⁹ And the olive-tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to wave over the trees?

¹⁰ And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, reign over us.

¹¹ But the fig-tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?

¹² Then said the trees to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.

¹³ And the vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave over the trees?

¹⁴ Then said all the trees to the thorn-bush, Come thou, reign over us.

¹⁵ And the thorn-bush said to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, come, put confidence in my shadow; but if not, fire shall come out of the thorn-bush and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

¹⁸ Little children, it is [the] last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is [the] last hour.

¹⁹ They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

²⁰ And *ye* have [the] unction from the holy [one], and ye know all things.

²¹ I have not written to you because ye do not know the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

²² Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? *He* is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

²³ Whoever denies the Son has not the Father either; he who confesses the Son has the Father also.

²⁴ As for *you* let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, *ye* also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

²⁵ And this is the promise which *he* has promised us, life eternal.

²⁶ These things have I written to you concerning those who lead you astray:

²⁷ and *yourselves*, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

²⁸ And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.