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.

²⁶ Then Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. And he had a thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

²⁷ And the king gave silver in Jerusalem as stones and gave cedars as the wild fig trees that grow abundantly in the plain.

²⁸ Also, Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and fine linen. The king’s merchants received the linen for a price.

²⁹ There came up and went out of Egypt chariots worth six hundred shekels of silver, one horse being a hundred fifty. And thus they brought horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram, according to their means.

11 But King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, the women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and Heth

² (the nations of which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, ‘Do not go in to them or let them come in to you. For surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.’). To them Solomon joined in love.

³ And he had seven hundred wives (princesses) and three hundred concubines. And his wives perverted his heart.

⁴ For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, so that his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

⁵ For Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the god of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

⁶ So Solomon worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD, but continued not to follow the LORD, as David his father.

⁷ Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab (on the mountain that is opposite Jerusalem), and to Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

⁸ And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and offered to their gods.

⁴ By faith, Abel offered a greater sacrifice to God than Cain - by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts - also by which he, being dead, still speaks.

⁵ By faith, Enoch was translated, so that he would not see death. Nor was he found. For God had taken him away. For before he was transformed, it was reported of him that he had pleased God.

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please Him. He who comes to God must believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

⁷ By faith, Noah being warned by God of the things which were as yet not seen, moved with reverence, prepared the Ark to the saving of his household (through which He condemned the world), and was made heir of the righteousness which is by faith.