Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.

80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest [between] the cherubim, shine forth.

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.

⁸ Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:

⁹ Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;

¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were [like] cedars of God;

¹¹ It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.

¹² Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?

¹³ The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.

¹⁴ O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;

¹⁵ Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.

¹⁸ So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹ Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents,

¹⁹ the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,

²⁰ the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;

²¹ the finger-rings, and the nose-rings;

²² the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets;

²³ the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.

²⁴ And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.

²⁵ Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;

²⁶ and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.

4 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, Our own bread will we eat, and with our own garments will we be clothed; only let us be called by thy name;—take away our reproach!

² In that day there shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for ornament for those that are escaped of Israel.

³ And it shall come to pass that he who remaineth in Zion, and he that is left in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,—every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;

⁴ when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured out the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

⁵ And Jehovah will create over every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and over its convocations, a cloud by day and a smoke, and the brightness of a flame of fire by night: for over all the glory shall be a covering.

⁶ And there shall be a tabernacle for shade by day from the heat, and for a shelter and for a covert from storm and from rain.

¹⁵ When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which is spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in [what is a] holy place, (he that reads let him understand,)

¹⁶ then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;

¹⁷ let not him that is on the house come down to take the things out of his house;

¹⁸ and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment.

¹⁹ But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.

²⁰ But pray that your flight may not be in winter time nor on sabbath:

²¹ for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be;

²² and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short.

²³ Then if any one say to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or here, believe [it] not.

²⁴ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

²⁵ Behold, I have told you beforehand.

²⁶ If therefore they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth; behold, [he is] in the inner chambers, do not believe [it].

²⁷ For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.