Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

95 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

² Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

³ For Jehovah 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 Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

⁸ Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

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

¹⁰ Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

¹¹ So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

11 And all Israel assembled themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

² Even aforetime, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel; and Jehovah thy God said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over my people Israel.

³ And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah; and they anointed David king over Israel according to the word of Jehovah through Samuel.

⁴ And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

⁵ And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. But David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the city of David.

⁶ And David said, Whoever smites the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.

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

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

⁹ And David became continually greater; and Jehovah of hosts was with him.

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.