Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁴ Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have established the good word That I spake unto the house of Israel, And concerning the house of Judah.

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth.

¹⁶ In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this [is] he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness.'

25 By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, my soul I lift up.

² My God, in Thee I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies exult over me.

³ Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou [art] the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁶ Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age [are] they.

⁷ Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

⁸ Good and upright [is] Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way.

⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah [are] kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

⁹ for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

¹⁰ night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.

¹¹ And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

¹² and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

¹³ to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

²⁵ `And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land [is] distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

²⁶ men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

²⁷ `And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;

²⁸ and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

²⁹ And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

³⁰ when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;

³¹ so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

³² verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;

³³ the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

³⁴ `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

³⁵ for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

³⁶ watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'