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

2 Woe to those who imagine iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because their hand has power.

² And they covet fields and houses and take them by violence and take them away. So, they oppress a man and his house, man and his heritage.

³ Therefore, thus says the LORD: “Behold, I have planned misery against this family, from which you cannot remove your necks. And you shall not go proudly; for this time shall be miserable.

⁴ “At that time, they shall take up a parable against you and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has exchanged the portion of my people. How can He take it away! He has divided our fields!’

⁵ “Therefore, you shall have no one who shall cast a measuring line by lot in the Congregation of the LORD.

⁶ “Those who prophesy, do not prophesy. They shall not prophesy to them. Nor shall they take shame.

⁷ “O you who are named of the House of Jacob! Is the Spirit of the LORD shortened? Are these His works? Are not My works good to him who walks uprightly?

⁸ “But those who were My people yesterday have risen up on the other side, as against an enemy. They strip the beautiful garment from those who pass by peacefully, as though they returned from the war.

⁹ “You have cast out the women of My people from their pleasant houses. You have continually taken away My Glory from their children.

¹⁰ “Arise and depart! For this is not your rest. Because it is polluted, it shall be destroyed with a severe destruction.

¹¹ “If a man walks in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine, and of strong drink,’ even he would be a ‘prophet’ of this people.

¹² “I will surely gather you wholly, O Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold, full of the noise of men.

¹³ “The breaker shall come up before them. They shall break out and pass by the gate and go out by it. And their king shall go before them. And the LORD shall be upon their heads.”

¹⁵ “Therefore, when you shall see the Abomination of Desolation (spoken of by Daniel the Prophet) set in the Holy Place (let the one who reads consider it.)

¹⁶ “Then let those who are in Judea, flee into the mountains.

¹⁷ “Let the one who is on the housetop, not come down to fetch anything out of his house.

¹⁸ “And the one who is in the field, let him not go back to fetch his clothes.

¹⁹ “Then woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days.

²⁰ “But pray that your flight is not in the winter, nor on the Sabbath.

²¹ “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall be.

²² “And unless those days are shortened, no flesh will be saved. But for the Elect’s sake, those days shall be shortened.

²³ “Then, if anyone shall say to you, ‘Lo, here (or there) is Christ’, do not believe it.

²⁴ “For there shall arise false christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders. So that if it were possible, they would deceive the very Elect.

²⁵ “Behold, I have told you before.

²⁶ “Therefore, if they shall say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the desert’, do not go. ‘Behold, He is in the secret places’, do not believe it.

²⁷ “For as the lightning comes out of the east, and is seen in the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of Man be.

²⁸ “For wherever a dead carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

²⁹ “And immediately after the tribulations of those days, the Sun shall be darkened. And the Moon shall not give her light. And the stars shall fall from Heaven. And the powers of Heaven shall be shaken.

³⁰ “And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in Heaven. And then all the tribes of the Earth shall mourn. And they shall see the Son of Man come in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.

³¹ And He shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet. And they shall gather together His Elect from the four winds - from the one end of the heavens to the other.