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

14 Behold, the Day of the LORD comes! And your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

² “For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And the city shall be taken, and the houses spoiled, and the women defiled. And half of the city shall go into captivity. And the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”

³ Then the LORD shall go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.

⁴ And His feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives on that day (which is before Jerusalem on the eastern side). And the Mount of Olives shall be split in its midst, toward the East and toward the West. And there shall be a very great valley. And half of the mountain shall move away toward the North, and half of the mountain toward the South.

⁵ And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains. For the valley of the mountains shall reach Azal. Indeed, you shall flee like you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you.

⁶ And at that time, shall there be no clear light, only dark.

⁷ And there shall be a day (it is known to the LORD) that is neither day nor night, but at evening time it shall be light.

⁸ And on that day, waters of life shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the outermost sea. And they shall be both in summer and winter.

⁹ And the LORD shall be King over all the Earth. At that time shall there be one LORD, and His Name shall be One.

4 Furthermore, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, brothers, that you increase more and more in how you ought to walk and to please God (as you have received from us).

² For you know what Commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

³ For this is the will of God: your sanctification. And that you should abstain from fornication;

⁴ so that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in holiness and honor,

⁵ not in the passion of lust (as the Gentiles do, who do not know God),

⁶ so that no one oppresses or defrauds his brother in any matter. For the Lord is Avenger of all such things, as we also have told you previously, and testified.

⁷ For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

⁸ Therefore, the one who ignores these things, does not ignore man, but God (Who has also given His Holy Spirit).

⁹ But concerning brotherly love, you do not need me to write to you. For you are taught by God to love one another.

¹⁰ And, indeed, you do so to all the brothers throughout all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to increase more and more

¹¹ and to earnestly endeavor to be quiet and mind your own business; and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

¹² so that you may behave honorably toward those who are outside, and that you lack nothing.

¹³ Brothers, I would not have you be ignorant concerning those who are asleep, lest you mourn as others who have no hope.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus is dead and is risen, so also will God bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

¹⁵ For we say this to you by the Word of the Lord: that we who live - and remain until the coming of the Lord - shall not precede those who sleep.

¹⁶ For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.

¹⁷ Then shall we who live and remain be caught up with them also in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord.

¹⁸ Therefore, comfort one another with these words.