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]
8 Now go, write it[a] down on a tablet in their presence,[b]
inscribe it on a scroll,
so that it might be preserved for a future time
as an enduring witness.[c]
9 For these are rebellious people—
they are lying children,
children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law.[d]
10 They[e] say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!”
and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right![f]
Tell us nice things;
relate deceptive messages.[g]
11 Turn aside from the way;
stray off the path.[h]
Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”[i]
12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“You have rejected this message;[j]
you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick,[k]
and rely on that kind of behavior.[l]
13 So this sin will become your downfall.
You will be like a high wall
that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse;
it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.[m]
14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar,
so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged.[n]
Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough[o]
to scoop a hot coal from a fire[p]
or to skim off water from a cistern.”[q]
15 For this is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says:
“If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered;[r]
if you calmly trusted in me, you would find strength,[s]
but you are unwilling.
16 You say, ‘No, we will flee on horses,’
so you will indeed flee.
You say, ‘We will ride on fast horses,’
so your pursuers will be fast.
17 One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier;[t]
at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away,[u]
until the remaining few are as isolated[v]
as a flagpole on a mountaintop
or a signal flag on a hill.”
16 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.[a] 2 They will put you out of[b] the synagogue,[c] yet a time[d] is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.[e] 3 They[f] will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.[g] 4 But I have told you these things[h] so that when their time[i] comes, you will remember that I told you about them.[j]
“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.[k]
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