Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

39 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.

² I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

³ My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,

⁴ Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

⁶ Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

⁷ And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.

⁹ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for *thou* hast done [it].

¹⁰ Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

¹¹ When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

¹² Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

¹³ Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.

26 And Job answered and said,

² How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!

³ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

⁴ For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

⁵ The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;

⁶ Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

⁷ He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

⁸ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹ He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it.

¹⁰ He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

¹¹ The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

¹² He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

¹³ By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent.

¹⁴ Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?

⁹ After these things I saw, and lo, a great crowd, which no one could number, out of every nation and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palm branches in their hands.

¹⁰ And they cry with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb.

¹¹ And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and fell before the throne upon their faces, and worshipped God,

¹² saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and strength, to our God, to the ages of ages. Amen.

¹³ And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they?

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

¹⁵ Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

¹⁶ They shall not hunger any more, neither shall they thirst any more, nor shall the sun at all fall on them, nor any burning heat;

¹⁷ because the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall shepherd them, and shall lead them to fountains of waters of life, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.