Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

79 Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

² Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

³ Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

⁴ Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

⁵ O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

⁶ How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

⁷ Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

⁸ O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

⁹ Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.

¹⁰ Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

¹¹ The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

¹² It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

¹³ Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

¹⁴ The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.

¹⁵ Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

¹⁶ And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

¹⁷ Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁸ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

¹⁹ And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

²⁰ O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

4 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of mountains, and high above the hills: and people shall flow to it.

² And many nations shall come in haste, and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth out of Sion, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

³ And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into spades: nation shall not take sword against nation: neither shall they learn war any more.

⁴ And every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree, and there shall be none to make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken.

⁵ For all people will walk every one in the name of his god: but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

15 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels having the seven last plagues. For in them is filled up the wrath of God.

² And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and them that had overcome the beast, and his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God:

³ And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, O King of ages.

⁴ Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou only art holy: for all nations shall come, and shall adore in thy sight, because thy judgments are manifest.

⁵ And after these things I looked; and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:

⁶ And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed with clean and white linen, and girt about the breasts with golden girdles.

⁷ And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

⁸ And the temple was filled with smoke from the majesty of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.