Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

96 Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD all the Earth!

² Sing to the LORD! Praise His Name! Declare His salvation from day to day.

³ Declare His Glory among all nations, His wonders among all people.

⁴ For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised. He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵ For all the gods of the people are idols. But the LORD made the heavens.

⁶ Strength and glory are before Him. Power and beauty are in His Sanctuary.

⁷ Give to the LORD, you families of the people! Give to the LORD glory and power!

⁸ Give to the LORD the glory of His Name. Bring an offering and enter into His courts.

⁹ Worship the LORD in the glorious Sanctuary. Tremble before Him, all the Earth.

¹⁰ Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!” Surely, the world shall be stable and not move; and He shall judge the people in righteousness.

¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and let the Earth be glad! Let the sea roar, and all that therein is.

¹² Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it! Let all the trees of the wood then rejoice

¹³ before the LORD. For He comes. For He comes to judge the Earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the people in His truth.

17 There was a man of Mount Ephraim whose name was Micah.

² And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you (on which you spoke a curse within my hearing), behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”

³ And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, “I had dedicated the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven and molten image. Now, therefore, I will give it to you again.”

⁴ And when he had restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the founder, who made a graven and molten image from it. And it was in the house of Micah.

⁵ And this man, Micah, had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who was his priest.

⁶ In those days, there was no king in Israel. Every man did that which was good in his own eyes.

⁹ I wrote to the church. But Diotrephes (who loves to have the pre-eminence among them) will not receive us.

¹⁰ Therefore, if I come, I will remind you of his deeds which he does - prattling against us with malicious words - and not content with this, he not only does not receive the brothers himself, but forbids those who would and thrusts them out of the church.

¹¹ Beloved, do not follow that which is evil, but that which is good. The one who does well is of God. But the one who does evil has not seen God.

¹² Demetrius has good report of all, and of the truth itself. Indeed, and we ourselves bear witness. And you know that our witness is true.