Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
20 A prayer of the people unto God, that it would please him to hear their king and receive his sacrifice, which he offered before he went to battle against the Ammonites.
To him that excelleth. A Psalm of David.
1 The [a]Lord hear thee in the day of trouble: the [b]Name of the God of Jacob defend thee:
2 Send thee help from the Sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
3 Let him remember all thine offerings, and [c]turn thy burnt offerings into ashes. Selah.
4 And grant thee according to thine heart, and fulfill all thy purpose:
5 That we may rejoice in thy [d]salvation, and set up the banner in the Name of our God, when the Lord shall perform all thy petitions.
6 Now [e]know I that the Lord will help his anointed, and will hear him from his [f]Sanctuary, by the mighty help of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God.
8 [g]They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save Lord: [h]Let the King hear us in the day that we call.
2 [a]O Lord, I have heard thy voice, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy [b]work in the midst of the people, in the midst of the years make it known: in wrath remember mercy.
3 God cometh from [c]Teman, and the holy One from mount Paran, Selah. His glory covereth the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise,
4 And his brightness was as the light: [d]he had horns coming out of his hands, and there was the hiding of his power.
5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth before his feet.
6 He stood and measured the earth: he beheld and dissolved the nations, and the everlasting mountains were broken, and the ancient hills did bow: his [e]ways are everlasting.
7 [f]For his iniquity I saw the tents of Cushan, and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
8 Was the Lord angry against the [g]rivers? or was thine anger against the floods? or was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride [h]upon thine horses? thy chariots brought salvation.
9 Thy [i]bow was manifestly revealed, and the [j]oaths of the tribes were a sure word, Selah, thou [k]didst cleave the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the stream of the water [l]passed by: the deep made a noise, and lifted up his hand on high.
11 The [m]sun and moon stood still in their habitation: [n]at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the bright shining of thy spears.
12 Thou trodest down the land in anger, and didst thresh the heathen in displeasure.
13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine [o]Anointed: thou hast wounded the head of the house of the wicked, and discoveredst the foundations unto the [p]neck, Selah.
14 Thou didst [q]strike through with his own staves the heads of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
15 Thou didst walk in the sea with thine horses upon the heap of great waters.
31 ¶ (A)[a]Then Jesus took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be fulfilled to the Son of man, that are written by the Prophets.
32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and shall be spiteful entreated, and shall be spitted on.
33 And when they have scourged him, they will put him to death: but the third day he shall rise again.
34 But they understood [b]none of these things, and this saying was hid from them, neither perceived they the things, which were spoken.
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