Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bit while the wicked is against me.

² I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

³ My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue,

⁴ LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah.

⁶ Surely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up riches not knowing who shall gather them.

⁷ ¶ And now, Lord, what shall I wait for? My hope is in thee.

⁸ Deliver me from all my rebellions; do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

⁹ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it.

¹⁰ Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

¹¹ When thou with chastening dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his greatness to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity. Selah.

¹² Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.

26 ¶ Job answered and said,

² How hast thou helped the one who has no power? Hast thou saved with thy arm the one who has no strength?

³ How hast thou counselled the one that has no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

⁴ To whom hast thou uttered words, and whose is the spirit that comes forth from thee?

⁵ ¶ Dead things are formed under the waters and of its dwelling places.

⁶ Sheol is naked before him, and hell has no covering.

⁷ He stretches out the north wind over the empty place and hangs the earth upon nothing.

⁸ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹ He holds back the face of his throne and spreads his cloud upon it.

¹⁰ He has compassed the waters with bounds until the end of light and darkness.

¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

¹² He divides the sea with his power, and by his intelligence he smites its pride.

¹³ By his spirit he has adorned the heavens; his hand has formed the fleeing serpent.

¹⁴ Behold, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion have we heard of him? For the thunder of his power, who shall understand?

⁹ After this I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and peoples and tongues stood before the throne and before the Lamb clothed with long white robes and palms in their hands

¹⁰ and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation unto him who is seated upon the throne of our God and unto the Lamb.

¹¹ And all the angels stood round about the throne and about the elders and the four animals; and they fell upon their faces before the throne and worshipped God,

¹² saying, Amen: The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honour and the power and the might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

¹³ ¶ And one of the elders responded and asked me, Who are these who are arrayed in long white robes? and where did they come from?

¹⁴ And I said unto him, lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁵ Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that is seated on the throne shall dwell among them.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun be thrust upon them nor any other heat.

¹⁷ For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall govern them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.