Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David.

29 Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;

² Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; worship Jehovah in holy splendour.

³ The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth,—Jehovah upon great waters.

⁴ The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

⁵ The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon:

⁶ And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo.

⁷ The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire.

⁸ The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, and layeth bare the forests; and in his temple doth every one say, Glory!

¹⁰ Jehovah sitteth upon the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth as king for ever.

¹¹ Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace.

3 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:

² A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

³ A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up;

⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

⁵ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

⁶ A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;

⁷ A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

⁸ A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.

⁹ What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?

¹⁰ I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of men to toil in.

¹¹ He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.

¹² I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;

¹³ yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.

¹⁴ I know that whatever God doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

¹⁵ That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God bringeth back again that which is past.

¹¹ For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

¹² But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

¹³ which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means].

¹⁴ But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;

¹⁵ but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one.

¹⁶ For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.