Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

93 The LORD reigns and is clothed with majesty. The LORD is clothed and girded with power. Also, the world shall be established, so that it cannot be moved.

² Your throne is established of old. You are from everlasting.

³ The floods have lifted up, O LORD. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

⁴ The waves of the sea are marvelous through the noise of many waters. The LORD on High is more mighty.

⁵ Your testimonies are very sure. Holiness becomes Your House, O LORD, forever.

2 And when the LORD was ready to take up Elijah into Heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

² Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here. For the LORD has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So, they came down to Bethel.

³ And the children of the Prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you this day?” And he said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

⁴ Again, Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here. For the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So, they came to Jericho.

⁵ And the children of the Prophets who were in Jericho came to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you this day?” And he said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

⁶ Moreover, Elijah said to him, “Please wait here. For the LORD has sent me to Jordan.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So, they both went.

⁷ And fifty men of the sons of the Prophets went and stood on the other side, far off. And those two stood by Jordan.

⁸ Then, Elijah took his cloak and wrapped it up and struck the waters. And they were divided here and there. And the two of them went over on the dry land.

⁹ Now, when they had passed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let your spirit be double upon me.”

¹⁰ And he said, “You have asked a hard thing. If, when I am taken from you, you see me, you shall have it so. But if not, it shall not be.”

¹¹ And as they went walking and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which separated the two of them. So, Elijah went up, in a whirlwind, into Heaven.

¹² And Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father! My father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he no longer saw him. And he took his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

2 And you were dead in trespasses and sins

² (wherein you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the authority of the ruler of the air, even the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

³ among whom all of us also once lived in the lusts of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the mind; and were, by nature, the children of wrath, just as the rest).

⁴ But God, Who is rich in mercy, through His great love with which He loved us,

⁵ even when we were dead by sins, has quickened us together in Christ (by grace you are saved)

⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus;

⁷ so that He might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of His grace through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.