Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

95 Come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us sing aloud to the Rock of our Salvation!

² Let us come before His Face with praise. Let us sing loud to Him with Psalms.

³ For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods,

⁴ in Whose hand are the deep places of the Earth, and the heights of the mountains are His.

⁵ The sea belongs to Him, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down, and kneel before the LORD our Maker.

⁷ For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His Hand. Today, if you will hear His voice,

⁸ “Do not harden your heart as in Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

⁹ “when your fathers tempted Me (tested Me) though they had seen My work.

¹⁰ “Forty years I have contended with this generation, and said they are a people that err in heart, for they have not known My ways.

¹¹ “Therefore, I swore in My wrath, saying, ‘Surely, they shall not enter into My rest.’”

11 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David, to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bones and your flesh.

² “And in time past, even when Saul was king, you led Israel out and in. And the LORD your God said to you, ‘You shall feed My people Israel. And you shall be captain over My people Israel.’”

³ So, all the elders of Israel came to the king, to Hebron. And David made a covenant with them in Hebron, before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the Word of the LORD, by the hand of Samuel.

⁴ And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (which is Jebus), where the Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land.

⁵ And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You shall not come in here.” Nevertheless, David took the tower of Zion, which is the City of David.

⁶ And David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be the chief and captain.” So Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first and was captain.

⁷ And David dwelt in the tower. Therefore, they called it the City of David.

⁸ And he built the city on every side, from Millo all around. And Joab repaired the rest of the city.

⁹ And David prospered and grew; for the LORD of Hosts was with him.

¹³ And one of the elders spoke, saying to me, “Who are these who are clothed in long white robes? And from where have they come?”

¹⁴ And I said to him, “Lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes and have made their long robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁵ Therefore, they are in the presence of the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His Temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more, nor thirst anymore, nor shall the Sun fall upon them, nor any heat.

¹⁷ For the Lamb, Who is in the midst of the throne, shall govern them and shall lead them to the lively fountains of waters. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”