Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds
[a] To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben.[b] A Psalm of David.
9 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your (A)wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and (B)exult in you;
I will (C)sing praise to your name, (D)O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before[c] your presence.
4 For you have (E)maintained my just cause;
you have (F)sat on the throne, giving righteous judgement.
5 You have (G)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have (H)blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
7 But the Lord sits enthroned for ever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he (I)judges the world with righteousness;
he (J)judges the peoples with uprightness.
9 The Lord is (K)a stronghold for (L)the oppressed,
a stronghold in (M)times of trouble.
10 And those who (N)know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to the Lord, who (O)sits enthroned in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his (P)deeds!
12 For he who (Q)avenges blood is mindful of them;
he (R)does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 (S)Be gracious to me, O Lord!
See my affliction from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from (T)the gates of death,
14 that I may recount all your praises,
that in the gates of (U)the daughter of Zion
I may (V)rejoice in your salvation.
A Vision of a Horseman
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet (A)Zechariah, the son of (B)Berechiah, son of (C)Iddo, saying, 8 “I saw in the night, and behold, (D)a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were (E)red, sorrel, and white horses. 9 Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ (F)The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’ 10 So (G)the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, (H)‘These are they whom the Lord has sent to (I)patrol the earth.’ 11 And they answered (J)the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, (K)‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth (L)remains at rest.’ 12 Then (M)the angel of the Lord said, (N)‘O Lord of hosts, (O)how long will you (P)have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these (Q)seventy years?’ 13 And the Lord answered (R)gracious and comforting words to (S)the angel who talked with me. 14 So (T)the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: (U)I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. 15 (V)And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are (W)at ease; (X)for while I was angry but a little, (Y)they furthered the disaster. 16 Therefore, thus says the Lord, (Z)I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; (AA)my house shall be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and (AB)the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem. 17 Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: (AC)My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, (AD)and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again (AE)choose Jerusalem.’”
God's Righteous Judgement
2 Therefore you have (A)no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For (B)in passing judgement on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practise the very same things. 2 We know that the judgement of God rightly falls on those who practise such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practise such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgement of God? 4 Or do you presume on (C)the riches of his kindness and (D)forbearance and (E)patience, (F)not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (G)storing up (H)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgement will be revealed.
6 (I)He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who (J)by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking[a] and (K)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress (L)for every human being who does evil, the Jew (M)first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honour and (N)peace for everyone who does good, (O)the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For (P)God shows no partiality.
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