Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

80 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.

² Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

³ Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

⁴ Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

⁵ For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

⁶ He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

⁷ He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

¹⁷ And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

2 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

² And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

³ Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

⁴ In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

⁵ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

⁶ Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

⁷ The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?

⁸ But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.

⁹ You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.

¹⁰ Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

¹¹ Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

¹² I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.

¹³ For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.

¹⁵ When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.

¹⁶ Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:

¹⁷ And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

¹⁸ And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.

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

²⁰ But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the sabbath.

²¹ For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.

²² And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

²³ Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him.

²⁴ For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.

²⁵ Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.

²⁶ If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not.

²⁷ For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be.

²⁸ Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

²⁹ And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved:

³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.

³¹ And he shall send his angels with a trumpet, and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.