Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

92 It is a good thing to praise the LORD, and to sing to Your Name, O Most High,

² to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your truth in the night,

³ upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the viol, with the song upon the harp.

⁴ For You, LORD, have made me glad by Your works; and I will rejoice in the works of Your hands.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree and shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³ Such as are planted in the House of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age. They shall be fat and flourishing,

¹⁵ to declare that the LORD my Rock is righteous and that no iniquity is in Him.

¹⁴ Then the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every wild animal. Upon your belly you shall go; and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

¹⁵ “I will also put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall break your head and you shall bruise His heel.”

¹⁶ To the woman, He said, “I will greatly increase your sorrows and your conceptions. In sorrow you shall bring forth children. And your desire shall be subject to your husband. And he shall rule over you.”

¹⁷ Also, He said to Adam, “Because you have obeyed the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree (whereof I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’), the earth is cursed for your sake. In sorrow you shall eat from it, all the days of your life.

¹⁸ “Also, it shall bring forth thorns and thistles to you. And you shall eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the earth. For out of it you were taken because you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

²⁰ And the man called his wife’s name “Eve”, because she was the mother of all living.

²¹ Also, to Adam and to his wife, the LORD God made coats of skins, and clothed them.

²² And the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become as one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he also put forth his hand and take and eat of the Tree of Life, and live forever…”

²³ Therefore, the LORD God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the earth from where he was taken.

²⁴ Thus, He cast out the man; and at the east side of the Garden of Eden, He set the Cherubims, and the blade of a shaken sword, to keep the way of the Tree of Life.

⁵ For He has not put the world to come (whereof we speak) in subjection to the angels.

⁶ But one in a certain place witnessed, saying, “What is man that You should be mindful of him; or the son of man that You would consider him?

⁷ “You made him a little inferior to the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and have set him above the works of Your Hands.

⁸ “You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” And in that He has put all things in subjection under him, He left nothing that should not be subject to him. But we still do not see all things subjected to him.

⁹ But we see Jesus, who was made little inferior to the angels, crowned with glory and honor through the suffering of death. That by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone.