Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

[A Psalm] of David.

25 Unto thee, Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.

² My God, I confide in thee; let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

³ Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

⁴ Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths.

⁵ Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

⁶ Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.

⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore will he instruct sinners in the way:

⁹ The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹⁵ —And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name, as it is this day,—we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

¹⁶ Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all round about us.

¹⁷ And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

¹⁸ Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.

¹⁹ Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

²⁰ And whilst I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God;

²¹ whilst I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

²² And he informed [me], and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to make thee skilful of understanding.

²³ At the beginning of thy supplications the word went forth, and I am come to declare [it]; for thou art one greatly beloved. Therefore consider the word, and have understanding in the vision:

²⁴ Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

²⁵ Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.

4 I testify before God and Christ Jesus, who is about to judge living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

² proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.

³ For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;

⁴ and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

⁵ But *thou*, be sober in all things, bear evils, do [the] work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.