Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

78 Hear my doctrine, O my people. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in a parable. I will declare high sentences of old

³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

⁴ We will not hide them from their children; but to the generation to come we will show the praise of the LORD, His power also, and His wonderful works that He has done.

⁵ How He established a testimony in Jacob and ordained a Law in Israel. Which He commanded our fathers that they should teach their children,

⁶ so that the posterity might know it and the children which should be born should stand up and declare it to their children.

⁷ So that they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His Commandments.

³⁰ Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel on Mount Ebal—

³¹ as Moses, the servant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an Altar of whole stone, over which no man had lifted an iron. And they offered Burnt Offerings unto the LORD on it and sacrificed Peace Offerings.

³² Also, he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

³³ And all Israel (and their elders and officers and their judges) stood on this side of the Ark and on that side, before the Priests of the Levites (who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD), the stranger as well as he who is born in the country, half of them opposite Mount Gerizim and half of them opposite Mount Ebal, as Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded before, so that they should bless the children of Israel.

³⁴ Then, afterward, he read all the Words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

³⁵ There was not a Word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the Congregation of Israel, the women as well as the children, and the stranger who was conversant among them.

¹³ Then the sixth angel blew the trumpet. And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God,

¹⁴ saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates!”

¹⁵ And the four angels who had been appointed an hour a day a month and a year to slay a third of mankind, were released.

¹⁶ And the number of horsemen of war were twenty thousand times ten thousand; for I heard the number of them.

¹⁷ And thus I saw the horses in a vision - and those who sat on them - having fiery breastplates of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions. And out of their mouths went forth fire and smoke and brimstone.

¹⁸ By these three was a third of mankind killed; that is, of the fire and of the smoke and of the brimstone which came out of their mouths.

¹⁹ For their power is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails were like serpents; and had heads with which they do harm.

²⁰ And the remnant of man who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands (so that they would not worship devils, and idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor go).

²¹ Also they did not repent of their murder, and of their sorcery, nor of their fornication, nor of their theft.