Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm, a Song, for the Sabbath day.

92 It is good to give thanks unto Jehovah, and to sing psalms unto thy name, O Most High;

² To declare thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness in the nights,

³ Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp.

⁴ For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁵ Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep:

⁶ A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

⁸ And thou, Jehovah, art on high for evermore.

⁹ For lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, for lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹⁰ But my horn shalt thou exalt like a buffalo's: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹ And mine eye shall see [its desire] on mine enemies; mine ears shall hear [it] of the evil-doers that rise up against me.

¹² The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.

¹³ Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God:

¹⁴ They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

¹⁵ To shew that Jehovah is upright: [he is] my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

³ If ye walk in my statutes, and observe my commandments and do them,

⁴ then I will give your rain in the season thereof, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit;

⁵ and your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.

⁶ And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land.

⁷ And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword;

⁸ and five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall beside you by the sword.

⁹ And I will turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

¹⁰ And ye shall eat old store, and clear away the old because of the new.

¹¹ And I will set my habitation among you; and my soul shall not abhor you;

¹² and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be to me a people.

¹³ I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

¹⁴ But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments,

¹⁵ and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,

¹⁶ I also will do this unto you—I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

¹⁸ And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,

¹⁹ and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,

²⁰ and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

4 For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

² For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³ For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

⁴ that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

⁵ (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

⁶ not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

⁷ For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

⁸ He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.