Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Shoshannim, {lilies} A testimony of Asaph: A Psalm.

¹ ¶ Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.

² In the presence of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength and come and save us.

³ Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁴ O LORD God of the hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁵ Thou dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶ Thou dost make us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.

⁷ Turn us again, O God of the hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁸ ¶ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

⁹ Thou didst prepare room before it and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the earth.

¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its boughs were like the cedars of God.

¹¹ She sent out her boughs unto the sea and her branches unto the river.

¹² Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck her?

¹³ The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beast of the field devours it.

¹⁴ Return, we beseech thee, O God of the hosts: look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine

¹⁵ and the vineyard which thy right hand has planted and the branch that thou didst make strong for thyself.

¹⁶ It is burned with fire; it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou didst make strong for thyself,

¹⁸ so we will not go back from thee. Thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of the hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

¹⁷ ¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

¹⁸ But ye shall be glad and rejoice from age to age in the things which I shall create; for, behold, I create joy unto Jerusalem and unto her people joy.

¹⁹ And I will be glad with Jerusalem and rejoice with my people: and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

²⁰ There shall no longer be there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days, for the child shall die one hundred years old; and he who sins at one hundred years of age shall be accursed.

²¹ And they shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

²² They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of the trees shall be the days of my people, and my elect shall perpetuate the work of their hands.

²³ They shall not labour in vain, nor give birth with fear; for their births are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring shall be with them.

²⁴ And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb shall be fed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not afflict nor do evil in all my holy mountain, said the LORD.

¹⁸ ¶ I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more, but ye shall see me; because I live, ye shall live also.

²⁰ At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

²¹ He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

²² Judas, not Iscariot, said unto him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world?

²³ Jesus answered and said unto him, He who loves me will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and dwell with him.

²⁴ He that does not love me does not keep my words, and the word which ye have heard is not mine, but of the Father who sent me.

²⁵ ¶ I have spoken these things unto you, being yet present with you.

²⁶ But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all the things that I have said unto you.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

²⁸ ¶ Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said, I go unto the Father; for my Father is greater than I.

²⁹ And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

³⁰ Hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the prince of this world comes and has nothing in me.

³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.