Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

80 To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,

² Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.

³ O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

⁴ Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

⁵ Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

⁶ Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.

⁷ God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

¹⁷ Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.

¹⁸ And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

14 Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst.

² And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

³ And gone forth hath Jehovah, And He hath fought against those nations, As in the day of His fighting in a day of conflict.

⁴ And stood have His feet, in that day, On the mount of Olives, That [is] before Jerusalem eastward, And cleft hath been the mount of Olives at its midst, To the east, and to the west, a very great valley, And removed hath the half of the mount towards the north. And its half towards the south.

⁵ And ye have fled [to] the valley of My mountains, For join doth the valley of the mountains to Azal, And ye have fled as ye fled before the shaking, In the days of Uzziah king of Judah, And come in hath Jehovah my God, All holy ones [are] with Thee.

⁶ And it hath come to pass, in that day, The precious light is not, it is dense darkness,

⁷ And there hath been one day, It is known to Jehovah, not day nor night, And it hath been at evening-time -- there is light.

⁸ And it hath come to pass, in that day, Go forth do living waters from Jerusalem, Half of them unto the eastern sea, And half of them unto the western sea, In summer and in winter it is.

⁹ And Jehovah hath become king over all the land, In that day there is one Jehovah, and His name one.

4 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

² for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

³ for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

⁴ that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

⁵ not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

⁶ that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

⁷ for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

⁸ he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

⁹ And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

¹⁰ for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

¹¹ and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

¹² that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

¹⁴ for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

¹⁵ for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

¹⁶ because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

¹⁷ then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

¹⁸ so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.