Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ The LORD reigns; he has clothed himself with majesty; the LORD has clothed himself with strength; he has girded himself: he has established the world also, that it cannot be moved.

² From this time on, thy throne shall never be moved; thou art eternal.

³ The rivers have lifted up, O LORD; the rivers have lifted up their voice; the rivers lift up their waves.

⁴ The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

⁵ Thy testimonies are very sure; holiness becomes thy house, O LORD, for ever.

15 ¶ And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah, the son of Oded;

² and he went out to meet Asa and said unto him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

³ For many days Israel has been without the true God, and without a priest and without a teacher and without law,

⁴ but when they in their trouble turned unto the LORD God of Israel and sought him, he was found of them.

⁵ And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great destruction upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

⁶ And one Gentile destroyed the other, and one city the other; for God discomforted them with all adversity.

⁷ Be ye strong, therefore, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

⁸ ¶ And when Asa heard the words and prophecy of Oded, the prophet, he was comforted and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin and out of the cities which he had taken in Mount Ephraim and repaired the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

⁹ And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon, for many of Israel had gone over to him, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

¹⁰ So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

¹¹ And they offered unto the LORD the same day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

¹² And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

¹³ that whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

¹⁴ And they swore unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting and with trumpets and with shofar.

¹⁵ And all those of Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them; and the LORD gave them rest round about.

¹⁵ And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and its gates and its wall.

¹⁶ And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth; and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs; and the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

¹⁷ And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

¹⁸ And the material of its wall was jasper; but the city was of pure gold, like unto clean glass.

¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

²¹ And the twelve gates are twelve pearls; in each one, one; each gate was of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as shining glass.

²² And I saw no temple in her; for the Lord God Almighty is her temple, and the Lamb.