Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

79 O God, the heathen have come into Your inheritance. They have defiled Your Holy Temple and made Jerusalem heaps of stones.

² The dead bodies of Your servants they have given to be food to birds of the heaven, and the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the Earth.

³ They have shed their blood like waters, all around Jerusalem; and there was no one to bury them.

⁴ We are a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

⁵ LORD, how long will You be angry? Forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶ Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen who have not known You, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon Your Name.

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob and made His dwelling place desolate.

⁸ Do not remember our former iniquities against us, but let Your tender mercies come quickly to meet us; for we are in great misery.

⁹ Help us, O God of Our Salvation, for the Glory of Your Name; and deliver us and be merciful to our sins for Your Name’s sake.

¹⁰ Why should the heathen say, “Where is their God?” Let them be known among the heathen in our sight by the vengeance of the blood of Your servants that is shed.

¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoners come before You. Preserve the children of death according to Your mighty arm

¹² and render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O LORD.

¹³ So we, Your people, and sheep of Your pasture, shall praise You forever; and from generation to generation we will set forth Your praise. To him who excels on Shoshannim Eduth: A Psalm committed to Asaph

4 But in the last days it shall happen that the Mountain of the House of the LORD shall be prepared on the top of the mountains. And it shall be exalted above the hills. And people shall flow to it.

² Yea, many nations shall come and say, “Come and let us go up to the Mountain of the LORD, and to the House of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us His ways. And we will walk in His paths.” For the Law shall go forth from Zion. And the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

³ And He shall judge among many people and rebuke mighty, far away nations. And they shall break their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation. Nor shall they learn to fight anymore.

⁴ But every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree. And no one shall make them afraid. For the Mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken it.

⁵ For all people will walk, each in the name of his god. And we will walk in the Name of the LORD our God, forever and ever.

15 And I saw another sign in Heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues. For by them is fulfilled the wrath of God.

² And I saw (as it were) a glassy sea, mingled with fire. And those who had gotten victory over the beast - and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name - stand at the glassy sea, having the harps of God.

³ And they sang the song of Moses (the servant of God) and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are your ways, King of Saints!

⁴ “Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify Your Name! For You only are holy! And all nations shall come and worship before You! For Your judgments are revealed!”

⁵ And after that, I looked. And behold, the Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony was open in Heaven.

⁶ And the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the Temple, clothed in pure and bright linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.

⁷ And therefore, four beasts gave the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, Who lives for evermore.

⁸ And the Temple was full of the smoke of the Glory of God and of His power. And no one was able to enter into the Temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.