Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 92[a]
A psalm; a song for the Sabbath day.
92 It is fitting[b] to thank the Lord,
and to sing praises to your name, O Most High.[c]
2 It is fitting[d] to proclaim your loyal love in the morning,
and your faithfulness during the night,
3 to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre,
to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.
4 For you, O Lord, have made me happy by your work.
I will sing for joy because of what you have done.[e]
12 The godly[a] grow like a palm tree;
they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.[b]
13 Planted in the Lord’s house,
they grow in the courts of our God.
14 They bear fruit even when they are old;
they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.[c]
15 So they proclaim that the Lord, my Protector,
is just and never unfair.[d]
15 A gentle response[a] turns away anger,
but a harsh word[b] stirs up wrath.[c]
2 The tongue of the wise[d] treats knowledge correctly,[e]
but the mouth of the fool spouts out[f] folly.
3 The eyes of the Lord[g] are in every place,
keeping watch on[h] those who are evil and those who are good.
4 Speech[i] that heals[j] is like[k] a life-giving tree,[l]
but a perverse speech[m] breaks the spirit.[n]
5 A fool rejects his father’s discipline,
but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.[o]
6 In the house of the righteous is abundant wealth,[p]
but the income of the wicked will be ruined.[q]
7 The lips of the wise spread[r] knowledge,
but not so the heart of fools.[s]
8 The Lord abhors[t] the sacrifice of the wicked,[u]
but the prayer[v] of the upright pleases him.[w]
9 The Lord abhors[x] the way of the wicked,
but he will love[y] those[z] who pursue[aa] righteousness.
The Lord Returns for Believers
13 Now we do not want you to be uninformed,[a] brothers and sisters,[b] about those who are asleep,[c] so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that[d] God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.[e] 15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord,[f] that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel,[g] and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left,[h] will be suddenly caught up[i] together[j] with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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