Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Majestic and Unshakable
Psalm 93
1 Adonai reigns—He is robed in majesty!
Adonai has robed and armed Himself with strength.
Yes, the world is firmly established—unshakable.
2 Your throne is established from of old.
You are from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, Adonai,
the floods have lifted up their voice,
the floods lift up their crashing waves.
4 More than the sounds of many waters—
more majestic than the breakers of the sea—
so majestic is Adonai on high!
5 Your testimonies are very sure.
Holiness befits Your House, Adonai, for endless days.
Pride for Tyre
28 The word of Adonai came to me saying: 2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘So your heart is exalted
and you say, “I am a god!
I sit in the seat of the gods
in the heart of the seas!”
Yet you are human, not a god,
even if you set up your heart like the heart of a god.
3 See, you are wiser than Daniel!
No secret is hidden from you!
4 By your wisdom and by understanding
you have made wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries.
5 In your great skill, by your trade,
you have increased your wealth,
so your heart is exalted
by your wealth.’”
6 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim:
“Because you have set up your heart
like the heart of God,
7 behold, I will bring strangers against you,
the ruthless of the nations.
They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.
They will defile your splendor.
8 They will bring you down to the Pit.
You will die the death of those slain
in the heart of the seas.
9 Will you still say, ‘I am a god’
before the one who slays you?
Yet you are man, and not a god,
in the hand of those who pierce you.
10 You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised
at the hand of strangers.
For I have spoken.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
54 When they heard these things, they became enraged and began gnashing their teeth at him. 55 But Stephen, full of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God—and Yeshua standing at the right hand of God. 56 And he said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
57 But they covered their ears; and crying out with a loud voice, they rushed at him with one impulse. 58 Driving him out of the city, they began stoning him, and the witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 They went on stoning Stephen as he was calling out, “Lord Yeshua, receive my spirit!” 60 Then he fell on his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” After he said this, he died.[a]
Saul Persecutes Messiah’s Community
8 Now Saul was in agreement with Stephen’s execution. On that day a great persecution arose against Messiah’s community in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Samaria, except the emissaries.
Tree of Life (TLV) Translation of the Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society.