Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.

80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest [between] the cherubim, shine forth.

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.

³ O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁴ Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?

⁵ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:

⁶ Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

⁷ Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.

¹⁸ So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹ Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

2 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

² And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³ Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time.

⁴ In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious.

⁵ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.

⁶ Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy to these, the ignominy will not depart.

⁷ O thou [that art] named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

⁸ But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely, that are averse from war.

⁹ The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever.

¹⁰ Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction.

¹¹ If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, [saying,] I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall be the prophet of this people.

¹² I will surely assemble, O Jacob, the whole of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.

¹³ One that breaketh through is gone up before them: they have broken forth, and have passed on to the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king passeth on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.

¹⁵ When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which is spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in [what is a] holy place, (he that reads let him understand,)

¹⁶ then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;

¹⁷ let not him that is on the house come down to take the things out of his house;

¹⁸ and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment.

¹⁹ But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.

²⁰ But pray that your flight may not be in winter time nor on sabbath:

²¹ for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be;

²² and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short.

²³ Then if any one say to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or here, believe [it] not.

²⁴ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

²⁵ Behold, I have told you beforehand.

²⁶ If therefore they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth; behold, [he is] in the inner chambers, do not believe [it].

²⁷ For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁸ [For] wherever the carcase is, there will be gathered the eagles.

²⁹ But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

³¹ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from [the one] extremity of [the] heavens to [the other] extremity of them.