Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

For the choir director; a psalm by Korah’s descendants.

¹⁵ So Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered it. ¹⁶ The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from inside the cloud. ¹⁷ To the Israelites, the glory of the Lord looked like a raging fire on top of the mountain. ¹⁸ Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain. He stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

⁹ I am John, your brother. I share your suffering, ruling, and endurance because of Jesus. I was ⌞exiled⌟ on the island of Patmos because of God’s word and the testimony about Jesus. ¹⁰ I came under the Spirit’s power on the Lord’s day. I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet, ¹¹ saying, “Write on a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

¹² I turned toward the voice which was talking to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lamp stands. ¹³ There was someone like the Son of Man among the lamp stands. He was wearing a robe that reached his feet. He wore a gold belt around his waist. ¹⁴ His head and his hair were white like wool—like snow. His eyes were like flames of fire. ¹⁵ His feet were like glowing bronze refined in a furnace. His voice was like the sound of raging waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword. His face was like the sun when it shines in all its brightness.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. Then he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ the living one. I was dead, but now I am alive forever. I have the keys of death and hell.