Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

4 For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

98 A Psalm. Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, For wonders He hath done, Given salvation to Him hath His right hand and His holy arm.

² Jehovah hath made known His salvation, Before the eyes of the nations, He hath revealed His righteousness,

³ He hath remembered His kindness, And His faithfulness to the house of Israel, All ends of earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout to Jehovah, all the earth, Break forth, and cry aloud, and sing.

⁵ Sing to Jehovah with harp, With harp, and voice of praise,

⁶ With trumpets, and voice of a cornet, Shout ye before the king Jehovah.

⁷ Roar doth the sea and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.

⁸ Floods clap hand, together hills cry aloud,

⁹ Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!

⁶ And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

⁷ for yourselves have known how it behoveth [you] to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

⁸ nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

⁹ not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

¹⁰ for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

¹¹ for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

¹² and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

¹³ and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

⁵ And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,

⁶ `These things that ye behold -- days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'

⁷ And they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things may be about to happen?'

⁸ And he said, `See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;

⁹ and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.'

¹⁰ Then said he to them, `Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,

¹¹ great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;

¹² and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

¹³ and it shall become to you for a testimony.

¹⁴ `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,

¹⁵ for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

¹⁶ `And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

¹⁷ and ye shall be hated by all because of my name --

¹⁸ and a hair out of your head shall not perish;

¹⁹ in your patience possess ye your souls.