Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in time and in affliction.

¹⁰ And those who know Your Name will trust in You. For You, LORD, have not failed those who seek You.

¹¹ Sing praises to the LORD, Who dwells in Zion. Show the people His works.

¹² For when He enquires after blood, He remembers it; not forgetting the complaint of the poor.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O LORD. Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You Who lifts me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴ so that I may show all Your praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion and rejoice in Your salvation.

¹⁵ The heathen are sunken down in the pit they made. Their foot is taken in the net they have hidden.

¹⁶ The LORD is known by executing judgment. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁷ The wicked shall return to Hell, and all nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the poor shall not be always forgotten. The hope of the afflicted shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Up LORD! Do not let man prevail! Let the heathen be judged in Your sight.

²⁰ Put them in fear, O LORD, so that the heathen may know that they are but men. Selah.

18 And when he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David. And Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

² And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant; for he loved him as his own soul.

⁴ And Jonathan took off the robe that was upon him and gave it to David, and his garments, including his sword and his bow and his belt.

²⁵ “Then there shall be signs in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the stars, and trouble upon the Earth among the nations, with confusion. The sea and the waters shall roar.

²⁶ “And men’s hearts shall fail them for fear and for looking after those things which shall come upon the world. For the powers of Heaven shall be shaken.

²⁷ “And then shall they see the Son of Man come in a cloud, with power and great Glory.

²⁸ “And when these things begin to happen, then look up and lift up your heads! For your redemption draws near!”