Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

64 That thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

² They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.

³ When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.

⁴ From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.

⁵ Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

⁶ And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷ There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

⁸ And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

⁹ Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.

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.

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

⁴ I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus,

⁵ That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

⁶ As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

⁷ So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

²⁴ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.

²⁵ And the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers that are in heaven, shall be moved.

²⁶ And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the 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 the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

²⁸ Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is very near.

²⁹ So you also when you shall see these things come to pass, know ye that it is very nigh, even at the doors.

³⁰ Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, until all these things be done.

³¹ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.

³² But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

³³ Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.

³⁴ Even as a man who going into a far country, left his house; and gave authority to his servants over every work, and commanded the porter to watch.

³⁵ Watch ye therefore, (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh: at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning,)

³⁶ Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.

³⁷ And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.