Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

29 Give to the LORD, you sons of the Mighty. Give to the LORD glory and strength.

² Give to the LORD glory due His Name. Worship the LORD in the glorious Sanctuary.

³ The voice of the LORD is upon the waters. The God of Glory makes it thunder. The LORD is upon the great waters.

⁴ The voice of the LORD is mighty. The voice of the LORD is glorious.

⁵ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Indeed, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ He also makes them leap like a calf, Lebanon and Shirion like a young unicorn.

⁷ The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

⁸ The voice of the LORD makes the wilderness tremble. The LORD makes the wilderness of Kadesh tremble.

⁹ The voice of the LORD makes the hinds calve and discovers the forests. In His Temple, every man speaks of His Glory.

¹⁰ The LORD sits upon the floods; and the LORD remains King forever.

¹¹ The LORD shall give strength to His people. The LORD shall bless His people with peace. A Psalm or song of the dedication of the House of David.

¹⁵ And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled. Even the eyes of the proud shall be humbled.

¹⁶ And the LORD of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed in their pasture, and the strangers shall eat in the desolate places of the fat ones.

¹⁸ Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin, as with cart ropes,

¹⁹ who say, “Let Him hurry. Let him hasten His work, so that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know it.”

²⁰ Woe to those who speak good of evil, and evil of good; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for sour.

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight.

²² Woe to those who are mighty at drinking wine, and to those who are strong at mixing intoxicating drink,

²³ who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away justice from the righteous.

²⁴ Therefore as the flame of fire devours the stubble, and the chaff is consumed by the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their bud shall rise up like dust, because they have cast off the Law of the LORD of hosts, and contemned the Word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before you.

¹⁹ “If you were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²⁰ “Remember the Word that I said to you, ‘the servant is not greater than his master’. If they have persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept My Word, they will also keep yours.

²⁶ “But when that Comforter shall come, Whom I will send to you from the Father (even the Spirit of Truth, Who proceeds from the Father) He shall testify of Me.

²⁷ “And you also shall witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.”