Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

All People Exhorted to Praise God.

A Psalm for ^[a]Thanksgiving.

Reunion of Judah and Israel

¹⁵ The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, ¹⁶ “Now you, son of man, take for yourself ^(A)one stick and write on it, ‘For ^(B)Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^(C)Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ ¹⁷ Then ^(D)put them together for yourself one to another into one stick, so that they may become one in your hand. ¹⁸ And when the sons of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not declare to us ^(E)what ^[a]you mean by these?’ ¹⁹ say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’ ²⁰ The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹ And say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to ^(F)take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; ²² and I will make them ^(G)one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^(H)one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. ²³ They will ^(I)no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their offenses; but ^(J)I will rescue them from all their ^[b]dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

The Davidic Kingdom

²⁴ “And My servant ^(K)David will be king over them, and they will all have ^(L)one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and ^[c]follow them. ²⁵ And they will live on the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and My servant ^(M)David will be their leader forever. ²⁶ And I will make a ^(N)covenant of peace with them; it will be an ^(O)everlasting covenant with them. And I will ^[d]place them and ^(P)multiply them, and set My ^(Q)sanctuary in their midst forever. ²⁷ My ^(R)dwelling place also will be among them; and ^(S)I will be their God, and they will be My people. ²⁸ And the nations will know that I am the Lord ^(T)who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”

A Scene of Heaven

15 Then I saw ^(A)another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, ^(B)seven angels who had ^(C)seven plagues, which are ^(D)the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.

² And I saw something like a ^(E)sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who ^(F)were victorious ^[a]over the ^(G)beast and ^(H)his image and the ^(I)number of his name, standing on the ^(J)sea of glass, holding ^(K)harps of God. ³ And they *sang the ^(L)song of Moses, ^(M)the bond-servant of God, and the ^(N)song of the Lamb, saying,