Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Let Us Sing Songs of Praise
95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us (A)make a joyful noise to (B)the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us (C)come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us (D)make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
3 For the Lord is (E)a great God,
and a great King (F)above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
5 The sea is his, for (G)he made it,
and his hands formed (H)the dry land.
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us (I)kneel before the Lord, our (J)Maker!
7 For he is our (K)God,
and we are the people of his (L)pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.
(M)Today, if you (N)hear his voice,
8 (O)do not harden your hearts, as at (P)Meribah,
as on the day at (Q)Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers put me to the (R)test
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my (S)work.
10 (T)For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known (U)my ways.”
11 Therefore I (V)swore in my wrath,
“They shall not enter (W)my rest.”
8 (A)Rejoice not over me, O (B)my enemy;
(C)when I fall, I shall rise;
(D)when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.
9 (E)I will bear the indignation of the Lord
because I have sinned against him,
until (F)he pleads my cause
and executes judgment for me.
(G)He will bring me out to the light;
I shall look upon his vindication.
10 Then (H)my enemy will see,
and shame will cover her who (I)said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
(J)My eyes will look upon her;
now she will be trampled down
(K)like the mire of the streets.
11 (L)A day for the building of your walls!
In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
12 In that day they[a] will come to you,
(M)from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
and from Egypt to (N)the River,[b]
(O)from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
13 But (P)the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their deeds.
14 (Q)Shepherd your people (R)with your staff,
the flock of your inheritance,
who dwell alone in a forest
(S)in the midst of (T)a garden land;[c]
let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.
15 (U)As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them[d] marvelous things.
16 (V)The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
(W)they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
their ears shall be deaf;
17 (X)they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
like the crawling things of the earth;
(Y)they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
(Z)they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
and they shall be in fear of you.
God's Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 (AA)Who is a God like you, (AB)pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
(AC)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(AD)He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
19 He will (AE)again have compassion on us;
(AF)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
(AG)You will cast all our[e] sins
into the depths of the sea.
20 (AH)You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
(AI)as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.
Jesus Foretells Peter's Denial
26 (A)And when they had sung a hymn, (B)they went out to (C)the Mount of Olives. 27 And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will (D)strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ 28 But after I am raised up, (E)I will go before you to Galilee.” 29 (F)Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.” 30 And (G)Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before (H)the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” 31 But (I)he said emphatically, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And they all said the same.
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