Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

¹ ¶ I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens; in them thou shalt establish thy truth.

³ I have made a covenant with my chosen; I have sworn unto David my slave, saying,

⁴ Thy seed will I establish for ever and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

¹⁹ ¶ Then thou didst speak in vision to thy holy one and didst say, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of my people.

²⁰ I have found David my slave; I anointed him with the oil of my holiness,

²¹ with whom my hand shall be established; mine arm also shall strengthen him.

²² The enemy shall not overcome him, nor the son of iniquity break him down.

²³ But I will break down his foes before his face and smite those that hate him.

²⁴ But my truth and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵ In the same manner I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers.

²⁶ He shall call me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my saving health.

6 ¶ Again, David gathered together all the chosen of Israel, thirty thousand.

² And David arose and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God upon which the name of the LORD of the hosts is invoked, who dwells there between the cherubim.

³ And they set the ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah, and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab drove the new cart.

⁴ And when they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was at Gibeah, with the ark of God, Ahio went before the ark.

⁵ And David and all the house of Israel danced before the LORD with all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps and on psalteries and on timbrels and on cornets and on cymbals.

⁶ ¶ And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it.

⁷ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his effrontery, and there he died by the ark of God.

⁸ And David was grieved because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah, and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.

⁹ And David was afraid of the LORD that day and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?

¹⁰ So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom, the Gittite.

¹¹ And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.

1 ¶ God, having spoken many times and in many ways in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

² has in these last times spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

³ who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

⁴ ¶ being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.