Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

64 Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,—that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

² —as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

³ When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

⁴ Never have [men] heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath eye seen a God beside thee, who acteth for him that waiteth for him.

⁵ Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.

⁶ And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

⁷ and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.

⁸ And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

⁹ Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

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.

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus;

⁵ that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word [of doctrine], and all knowledge,

⁶ (according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you,)

⁷ so that ye come short in no gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁸ who shall also confirm you to [the] end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ God [is] faithful, by whom ye have been called into [the] fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

²⁴ But in those days, after that distress, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light;

²⁵ and the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken;

²⁶ and then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory;

²⁷ and then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from end of earth to end of heaven.

²⁸ But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when its branch already becomes tender and puts forth the leaves, ye know that the summer is near.

²⁹ Thus also *ye*, when ye see these things happening, know that it is near, at the doors.

³⁰ Verily I say unto you, This generation shall in no wise pass away, till all these things take place.

³¹ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.

³² But of that day or of that hour no one knows, neither the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

³³ Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the time is:

³⁴ [it is] as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

³⁵ Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the house comes: evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;

³⁶ lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

³⁷ But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.