Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² Blessed is that nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen for His inheritance.

¹³ The LORD looks down from Heaven, beholding all the children of men.

¹⁴ From the habitation of His dwelling he beholds all those who dwell on the Earth.

¹⁵ He fashions their hearts, every one, understanding all their works.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of an army; nor is the mighty man delivered by great strength.

¹⁷ A horse is a vain help and shall not deliver by his great strength.

¹⁸ Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those who fear Him, upon those who trust in His mercy

¹⁹ to deliver their souls from death and to preserve them in famine.

²⁰ Our soul waits for the LORD. He is our Help and our Shield.

²¹ Surely, our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we trusted in His Holy Name.

²² Let Your mercy, O LORD, be upon us. As we trusted in You. A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away and he departed.

¹⁶ And the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount and the sound of the trumpet, exceedingly loud, so that all the people who were in the camp were afraid.

¹⁷ Then Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with God. And they stood at the foot of the mount.

¹⁸ And Mount Sinai was engulfed in smoke, because the LORD came down upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended, as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mount trembled exceedingly.

¹⁹ And when the sound of the trumpet blew long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke. And God answered him by voice.

²⁰ For the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount. And when the LORD called Moses up onto the top of the mount, Moses went up.

²¹ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and remind the people not to break their boundaries and go up to the LORD to gaze, lest many of them perish.

²² “Also, let the priests who come to the LORD be sanctified, lest the LORD destroy them.”

²³ And Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up onto Mount Sinai. For You have charged us, saying, ‘Set boundaries on the mountain, and sanctify it.’”

²⁴ And the LORD said to him, “Go. Get down and come up. You and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break their boundaries to come up to the LORD, lest He destroy them.”

²⁵ So Moses went down to the people and told them.

¹⁴ For, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

¹⁵ For you have not received the spirit of bondage, to fear again. But you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, “Abba, Father!”

¹⁶ The same Spirit bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

¹⁷ If we are children, we are also heirs (even the heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ), if indeed we suffer with Him. So that we also may be glorified with Him.