Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

25 To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.

² My God, I trust in You. Let me not be confounded. Do not let my enemies rejoice over me.

³ So all who hope in You shall not be ashamed. Let those who transgress without cause be confounded.

⁴ Show me Your ways, O LORD, and teach me Your paths.

⁵ Lead me forth in Your truth and teach me. For You are the God of my salvation. In You do I trust, all the day.

⁶ Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies, and Your lovingkindness. For they have been forever.

⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my rebellions. But according to Your kindness remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O LORD.

⁸ Gracious and righteous are the LORD. Therefore, He will teach sinners in the way.

⁹ Those who are meek, He will guide in judgment and teach the humble His way.

¹⁰ All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

¹⁵ “And now, O Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand - and has gotten yourself renown, as appears this day - we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

¹⁶ “O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beg you, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city, Jerusalem, your holy Mountain. Because of our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are a reproach to all that are around us.

¹⁷ “Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications. And for the Lord’s sake, cause your face to shine upon your Sanctuary, which lies in ruins.

¹⁸ “O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city whereupon your Name is called. For we do not present our supplications before you for our own righteousness, but for your great tender mercies.

¹⁹ “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, consider, and do it! Do not delay, for your own sake, O my God. For your Name is called upon your city, and your people.”

²⁰ And while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presented my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy Mountain of my God;

²¹ Yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man, Gabriel, whom I had seen before in the vision, came flying, and touched me about the time of the evening offering.

²² And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you knowledge and understanding.

²³ “At the beginning of your supplications, the commandment came forth. And I have come to show you, for you are greatly beloved. Therefore, understand the matter and consider the vision.

²⁴ “Seventy weeks are determined upon your people, and upon your holy city; to finish the wickedness, and to seal up the sins, and to reconcile the iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

²⁵ “Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to build and restore the people, and to build Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. And the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in a troublesome time.

4 Therefore, I charge you before God and before the Lord Jesus Christ, Who shall judge the living and dead at His appearing and in His Kingdom:

² Preach the Word! Be ready, in season and out of season. Convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and teaching.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But having itching ears, they shall gather a heap of teachers according to their own lusts

⁴ and shall turn their ears from the truth and shall be given to fables.

⁵ But you, be sober in all things. Suffer adversity. Do the work of an evangelist. Carry out your ministry fully.