Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

64 Didst Thou not rend the heavens? Thou didst come down, From thy presence did mountains flow,

² (As fire kindleth stubble -- Fire causeth water to boil,) To make known Thy name to Thine adversaries, From Thy presence do nations tremble.

³ In Thy doing fearful things -- we expect not, Thou didst come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow.

⁴ Even from antiquity [men] have not heard, They have not given ear, Eye hath not seen a God save Thee, He doth work for those waiting for Him.

⁵ Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them [is] continuance, and we are saved.

⁶ And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

⁷ And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.

⁸ And now, O Jehovah, thou [art] our Father, We [are] the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.

⁹ Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people [are] we all.

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!

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

⁴ I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,

⁵ that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

⁶ according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,

⁷ so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁸ who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁹ faithful [is] God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

²⁴ `But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

²⁵ and the stars of the heaven shall be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

²⁶ `And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in clouds with much power and glory,

²⁷ and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.

²⁸ `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;

²⁹ so ye, also, when these ye may see coming to pass, ye know that it is nigh, at the doors.

³⁰ Verily I say to you, that this generation may not pass away till all these things may come to pass;

³¹ the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

³² `And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers who are in the heaven, not even the Son -- except the Father.

³³ Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;

³⁴ as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

³⁵ watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning;

³⁶ lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

³⁷ and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'