Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer: A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ ¶ O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

² For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

³ He shall guide the peoples under us, and the Gentiles under our feet.

⁴ He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

⁵ ¶ God is gone up with a shout of joy, the LORD with the sound of the shofar.

⁶ Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

⁷ For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises with understanding.

⁸ God reigns over the Gentiles; God sits upon the throne of his holiness.

⁹ The princes of the peoples have joined the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong unto God; he is greatly exalted.

¹⁵ Then Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

¹⁶ And the glory of the LORD abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days, and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷ And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the sons of Israel.

¹⁸ And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mount, and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

⁹ ¶ I John, your brother and participant in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in the patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit in the day of the Lord and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet,

¹¹ that said, I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, and What thou seest, write in a book and send it unto the seven congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} which are in Asia: unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna and unto Pergamos and unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and unto Laodicea.

¹² And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden lampstands

¹³ and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle.

¹⁴ His head and his hairs were white like white wool, as the snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire

¹⁵ and his feet like unto brilliant metal as if they burned in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters.

¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun when it shines in its strength.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I AM the first and the last,

¹⁸ and he that lives and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of Hades and of death.