Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ O come, let us bring joy unto the LORD; let us sing with joy unto the rock of our saving health.

² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and sing unto him with joy.

³ For the LORD is a great God and a great King above all gods.

⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.

⁵ The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶ O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

⁷ ¶ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today if ye will hear his voice,

⁸ harden not your heart, as in the provocation and as in the day of trials in the wilderness

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰ Forty years long I was grieved with this generation and said, It is a people that err from the heart, who have not known my ways;

¹¹ unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

11 ¶ Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

² And moreover yesterday and the day before yesterday, when Saul was king, it was thou that led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD thy God hath said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

³ Therefore, all the elders of Israel came to the king in Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Samuel.

⁴ Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, for there the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of that land.

⁵ And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not enter here. Nevertheless, David took the fortress of Zion, which is the city of David.

⁶ And David said, Whoever smites the Jebusites first shall be head and prince. So Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first and was made the head.

⁷ And David dwelt in the fortress; therefore, they called it the city of David.

⁸ And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about, and Joab restored the rest of the city.

⁹ So David waxed greater and greater, for the LORD of the hosts was with him.

¹³ ¶ And one of the elders responded and asked me, Who are these who are arrayed in long white robes? and where did they come from?

¹⁴ And I said unto him, lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁵ Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that is seated on the throne shall dwell among them.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun be thrust upon them nor any other heat.

¹⁷ For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall govern them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.