Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

80 Hear, O You Shepherd of Israel, You Who leads Joseph like sheep. Show Your brightness, You Who sits between the Cherubims.

² Stir up Your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh and come to help us.

³ Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, so that we may be saved.

⁴ O LORD God of Hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people?

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink with great measure.

⁶ You have made us a point of contention to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.

⁷ Turn us again, O God of Hosts. Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

¹⁷ Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, and upon the son of man whom You made strong for Your own self,

¹⁸ so we will not go back from You. Revive us, and we shall call upon Your Name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of Hosts! Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved. To him who excels upon Gittith: A Psalm committed to Asaph

13 “At that time, there shall be a fountain opened to the House of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

² “And at that time,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land. And they shall no longer be remembered. And I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land.

³ “And when any shall still prophesy, his father and his mother who begat him, shall say to him, ‘You shall not live. For you speak lies in the Name of the LORD. And his father and his mother who begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

⁴ “And at that time, every prophet shall be ashamed of his vision after he has prophesied. Nor shall they wear a hairy garment to deceive.

⁵ “But he shall say, ‘I am no Prophet. I am a farmer. For man taught me to be a herdsman from my youth up.’

⁶ “And one shall say to him, ‘What are these wounds in your hands?’ Then he shall answer, ‘Thus was I wounded in the house of my friends.’

⁷ “Arise, O sword, upon My Shepherd, and upon the Man, My Friend!” says the LORD of Hosts. “Strike the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn My Hand upon the little ones.

⁸ “And in all the land,” says the LORD, “two parts of it shall be cut off and die. But a third of it shall be left.

⁹ “And I will bring that third part through the fire, and will refine them as the silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested. They shall call on My Name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is My people.’ And they shall say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”

⁶ Then I saw another angel fly in the midst of Heaven - having an everlasting Gospel to preach to those who dwell on the Earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people -

⁷ saying with a loud voice, “Fear God! And give glory to Him! For the hour of His judgment has come! And worship Him who made Heaven and Earth and the sea and the fountains of waters!”

⁸ And there followed another angel, saying, “Babylon, that great city is fallen! It is fallen! For she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication!”

⁹ And a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worship the beast and his image - and receives his mark on his forehead, or on his hand -

¹⁰ the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God; indeed, of the pure wine which is poured into the cup of His wrath! And he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels, and before the Lamb!

¹¹ “And the smoke of their torment shall ascend evermore! And they shall have no rest, day nor night, who worship the beast and his name!”

¹² Here is the patience of saints. Here are those who keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from Heaven, saying to me, “Write: ‘The dead who die in the Lord are fully blessed.’” “Even so,” says the Spirit, “for they rest from their labors and their works still follow them.”