Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 93^[a]

Glory of the Lord’s Kingdom

¹⁶ Some other Benjaminites and Judahites also went out to David in his stronghold. ¹⁷ David went out to meet them and he said to them, “If you have come to me in peace, to help me, then your heart will be one with my heart. But if you are here to betray me to my enemies even though my hands are innocent, may the God of our fathers see it and rebuke you.”

¹⁸ The Spirit then came upon Amasai, the leader of the captains, and he said,

David received them and made them captains of his raiding parties.

¹⁹ Some men from Manasseh went over to David when he went to the Philistines to fight against Saul. He, however, did not help them because the lords of the Philistines had discussed it and sent him away saying, “It would cost us our heads if he were to defect to his master Saul.”

²⁰ These were the men of Manasseh who went over to him in Ziklag: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai. They were captains of the thousands in Manasseh. ²¹ They helped David fight against the raiding parties, and they were brave warriors, all of them captains of the army.

²² From that time on, more men would arrive daily to help David until he had a large army, like an army of God.^[a]

⁵ The one seated on the throne then said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He also said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ⁶ Then he said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.^[a] To those who are thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of life-giving water.

⁷ “The one who is victorious will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.^{[b] 8} But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the depraved, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and liars of every kind, their place is the fiery lake of burning sulfur, which is the second death.”^[c]

The New Jerusalem. ⁹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven final plagues came forward and said to me, “Come, and I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰ Then he carried me away in the spirit^[d] to the top of a very high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. ¹¹ It possessed the glory of God and had the radiance of some priceless jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal.

¹² Its wall was of a great height, with twelve gates,^[e] and at the gates there were twelve angels. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. ¹³ There were three gates to the east, three to the north, three to the south, and three to the west. ¹⁴ The city wall had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.