Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

23 And these [are] the last words of David: -- `The affirmation of David son of Jesse -- And the affirmation of the man raised up -- Concerning the Anointed of the God of Jacob, And the Sweetness of the Songs of Israel:

² The Spirit of Jehovah hath spoken by me, And His word [is] on my tongue.

³ He said -- the God of Israel -- to me, He spake -- the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man [is] righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.

⁴ And as the light of morning he riseth, A morning sun -- no clouds! By the shining, by the rain, Tender grass of the earth!

⁵ For -- not so [is] my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused [it] to spring up.

⁶ As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away [are] all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;

⁷ And the man who cometh against them Is filled with iron and the staff of a spear, And with fire they are utterly burnt In the cessation.'

132 A Song of the Ascents. Remember, Jehovah, for David, all his afflictions.

² Who hath sworn to Jehovah. He hath vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

³ `If I enter into the tent of my house, If I go up on the couch of my bed,

⁴ If I give sleep to mine eyes, To mine eyelids -- slumber,

⁵ Till I do find a place for Jehovah, Tabernacles for the Mighty One of Jacob.

⁶ `Lo, we have heard it in Ephratah, We have found it in the fields of the forest.

⁷ We come in to His tabernacles, We bow ourselves at His footstool.

⁸ Arise, O Jehovah, to Thy rest, Thou, and the ark of Thy strength,

⁹ Thy priests do put on righteousness, And Thy pious ones cry aloud.

¹⁰ For the sake of David Thy servant, Turn not back the face of Thine anointed.

¹¹ Jehovah hath sworn truth to David, He turneth not back from it: Of the fruit of thy body, I set on the throne for thee.

¹² If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee.

¹³ For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired [it] for a seat to Himself,

¹⁴ This [is] My rest for ever and ever, Here do I sit, for I have desired it.

¹⁵ Her provision I greatly bless, Her needy ones I satisfy [with] bread,

¹⁶ And her priests I clothe [with] salvation, And her pious ones do sing aloud.

¹⁷ There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.

¹⁸ His enemies I do clothe [with] shame, And upon him doth his crown flourish!

⁴ John to the seven assemblies that [are] in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

⁶ and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him [is] the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁷ Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!

⁸ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'

³³ Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?'

³⁴ Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'

³⁵ Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?'

³⁶ Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

³⁷ Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say [it]; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'