Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
The Reign of the Righteous King.
A Psalm of Solomon.
72 Give the king (A)Your judgments, God,
And (B)Your righteousness to the king’s son.
2 [a]May [b]he (C)judge Your people with righteousness
And [c](D)Your afflicted with justice.
3 [d]May the mountains bring [e](E)peace to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.
4 [f]May he (F)vindicate the [g]afflicted of the people,
Save the children of the needy,
And crush the oppressor.
5 [h]May they fear You (G)while the sun shines,
And [i]as long as the moon shines, throughout all generations.
6 [j]May he come down (H)like rain upon the mown grass,
Like (I)showers that water the earth.
7 [k]May the (J)righteous flourish in his days,
As well as an (K)abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
19 [a]For, you people in Zion, (A)inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will (B)weep no longer. He will certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will (C)answer you. 20 Although the Lord has given you (D)bread of deprivation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher, will no longer (E)hide Himself, but your eyes will see your Teacher. 21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the (F)way, walk in it,” whenever you (G)turn to the right or to the left. 22 And you will desecrate your carved (H)images plated with silver, and your cast metal (I)images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to [b]them, “(J)Be gone!”
23 Then He will (K)give you rain for your seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be [c]rich and [d]plentiful; on that day (L)your livestock will graze in a wide pasture. 24 Also the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat [e]seasoned feed, which [f]has been (M)winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. 25 And on every lofty mountain and (N)every high hill there will be [g]streams running with water on the day of the great (O)slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 (P)And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day (Q)the Lord binds up the (R)fracture of His people and (S)heals the wound [h]He has inflicted.
16 Paul stood up, and (A)motioning with his hand said,
“Men of Israel, and (B)you who fear God, listen: 17 The God of this people Israel (C)chose our fathers and [a](D)made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm (E)He led them out from it. 18 For (F)a period of about forty years (G)He put up with them in the wilderness. 19 (H)When He had destroyed (I)seven nations in the land of Canaan, He (J)distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took (K)about 450 years. 20 After these things He (L)gave them judges until (M)Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they (N)asked for a king, and God gave them (O)Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 After He had (P)removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘(Q)I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My [b]will.’ 23 (R)From the descendants of this man, (S)according to promise, God has brought to Israel (T)a Savior, Jesus, 24 after (U)John had proclaimed, before [c]His coming, a (V)baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 And while John (W)was completing his course, (X)he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
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