Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

90 LORD, You have been our habitation from generation to generation.

² Before the mountains were made (and You had formed the Earth and the world), even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³ You turn man to contrition. Again, You say, “Return, you sons of Adam.”

⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵ You have overflowed them. They are asleep. In the morning, they grow like the grass.

⁶ In the morning it flourishes and grows. In the evening, it is cut down and withers.

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger; and by Your wrath are we troubled.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, and our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.

⁹ For all our days have passed away in Your anger. We have spent our years as a thought.

¹⁰ The time of our life is threescore years and ten (and if they be of strength, fourscore years). Yet, their strength is but labor and sorrow; for it is cut off quickly and we flee away.

¹¹ Who knows the power of Your wrath? For according to Your fear is Your anger.

¹² Teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹³ Return (O LORD, how long?) and be pacified toward Your servants.

¹⁴ Fill us with Your mercy in the morning. So shall we rejoice and be glad all our days!

¹⁵ Comfort us according to the days that You have afflicted us, according to the years that we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let Your work be seen toward Your servants, and Your Glory upon their children.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us and direct the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands.

¹⁸ Then, King David went in and sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD? And what is my house, that You have brought me here?

¹⁹ “And yet, this was a small thing in Your sight, O Lord GOD. Therefore, You have also spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come. And this is the manner of man, O Lord GOD.

²⁰ “And what more can David say to You? For You, Lord GOD, know Your servant.

²¹ “For Your Word’s sake, and according to Your own Heart, have You done all these great things, to make them known to Your servant.

²² “Therefore, You are great, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You. Nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

²³ “And what one people on the Earth is like Your people, like Israel, whose God went and redeemed them to Himself, so that they might be His people, and that He might make a Name for Himself and do great and mighty things for Yourself and for Your land, O LORD. You have redeemed Your people to Yourself out of Egypt, the nations, and their gods!

²⁴ “For You have ordained Your people Israel to Yourself, to be Your people forever! And You, LORD, have become their God.

²⁵ “Now, therefore, O Lord GOD, confirm forever the Word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house, and do as You have said.

²⁶ “And let Your Name be magnified forever by those who shall say, ‘The LORD of Hosts is the God over Israel,’ and let the House of Your servant David be established before You.

²⁷ “For You, O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, have revealed to Your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a House.’ Therefore, Your servant has been bold to pray this prayer to You.

²⁸ “Therefore, now, O Lord GOD (You are God and Your Words are true and You have told this goodness to Your servant),

²⁹ “therefore, now let it please You to bless the House of Your servant, so that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken it. And let the House of Your servant be blessed forever with Your blessing.”

¹² “And behold, I come shortly. And My reward is with Me: to give to every man according as his work shall be.

¹³ “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

¹⁴ “Blessed are those who do His Commandments; in that the Tree of Life may be their right and they may enter in through the gates, into the City.

¹⁵ “For outside shall be dogs and enchanters and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves or makes lies.

¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the generation of David, and the Bright Morning Star.