Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Serve Yahweh with Gladness

A Psalm of ^[a]Thanksgiving.

Israel Will No Longer Be Divided

¹⁵ The word of Yahweh came again to me saying, ¹⁶ “Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself ^(A)one stick and write on it, ‘For ^(B)Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^(C)Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ ¹⁷ Then ^(D)draw them together for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. ¹⁸ And when the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us ^(E)what you mean by these?’ ¹⁹ say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’ ²⁰ And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹ And speak to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will ^(F)take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; ²² and I will make them ^(G)one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^(H)one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. ²³ They also will ^(I)no longer defile themselves with their idols or with their detestable things or with any of their transgressions; but ^(J)I will save them from all their ^[a]places of habitation in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant

²⁴ “And My servant ^(K)David will be king over them, and they will all have ^(L)one shepherd; and they will walk in My judgments and keep My statutes and do them. ²⁵ They will inhabit the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, which your fathers inhabited; and they will inhabit it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and ^(M)David My servant will be their prince forever. ²⁶ And I will cut a ^(N)covenant of peace with them; it will be an ^(O)everlasting covenant with them. And I will give them the land and ^(P)multiply them and will set My ^(Q)sanctuary in their midst forever. ²⁷ My ^[b](R)dwelling place also will be with them; and ^(S)I will be their God, and they will be My people. ²⁸ And the nations will know that I am Yahweh ^(T)who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”

Seven Angels, Seven Plagues

15 Then I saw ^(A)another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, ^(B)seven angels who have ^(C)seven plagues, which are ^(D)the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.

² Then I saw something like a ^(E)sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who have ^(F)overcome ^[a]the ^(G)beast and ^(H)his image and the ^(I)number of his name, standing on the ^(J)sea of glass, having ^(K)harps of God. ³ And they *sang the ^(L)song of Moses, ^(M)the slave of God, and the ^(N)song of the Lamb, saying,