Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 92
God’s Love and Faithfulness
A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praise to your name, Most High,(A)
2 to declare your faithful love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night,(B)
3 with a ten-stringed harp[a]
and the music of a lyre.(C)
4 For you have made me rejoice, Lord,
by what you have done;
I will shout for joy
because of the works of your hands.(D)
12 The righteous thrive like a palm tree
and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.(A)
13 Planted in the house of the Lord,
they thrive in the courts of our God.(B)
14 They will still bear fruit in old age,
healthy and green,(C)
15 to declare, “The Lord is just;
he is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in him.”(D)
26 Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen(A) and stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.(B) 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones,(C) and he made cedar(D) as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills. 28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue.[a] The king’s traders bought them from Kue at the going price.(E) 29 A chariot was imported from Egypt for fifteen pounds[b] of silver, and a horse for four pounds.[c] In the same way, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram through their agents.(F)
Solomon’s Unfaithfulness to God
11 King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter:(G) Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women(H) 2 from the nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn your heart away to follow their gods.”(I) To these women Solomon was deeply attached[d] in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred who were concubines,(J) and they turned his heart away.(K)
4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.(L) 5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth,(M) the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom,(N) the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.(O) 6 Solomon did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, and unlike his father David, he did not remain loyal to the Lord.
7 At that time, Solomon built a high place(P) for Chemosh,(Q) the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom,[e](R) the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.(S) 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.(A)
5 By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God took him away.[a] For before he was taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God.(B) 6 Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
7 By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.(C)
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