Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.

46 God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.

² Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;

³ Though the waters thereof roar [and] foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

⁴ There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.

⁵ God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

⁶ The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

⁷ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

⁸ Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth:

⁹ He hath made wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots in the fire.

¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

¹¹ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

¹² And the messenger that went to call Micah spoke to him saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one assent: let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and declare good.

¹³ And Micah said, As Jehovah liveth, even what my God shall say, that will I declare.

¹⁴ And he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micah, shall we go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper; and they will be given into your hands.

¹⁵ And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but truth in the name of Jehovah?

¹⁶ And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And Jehovah said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

¹⁷ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil?

¹⁸ And he said, Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left;

¹⁹ and Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

²⁰ And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah and said, I will entice him. And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith?

²¹ And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice [him], and also succeed: go forth, and do so.

²² And now, behold, Jehovah has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets; and Jehovah has spoken evil concerning thee.

²³ [It was] necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

²⁴ For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

²⁵ nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

²⁶ since he had [then] been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for [the] putting away of sin by his sacrifice.

²⁷ And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

²⁸ thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.