Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song; a Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.

48 Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the hill of his holiness.

² Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³ God is known in her palaces as a high fortress.

⁴ For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;

⁵ They saw,—so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:

⁶ Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail.

⁷ With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.

⁸ As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God doth establish it for ever. Selah.

⁹ We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰ According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers thereof;

¹³ Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.

¹⁴ For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death.

¹⁴ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

¹⁵ Son of man, [it is] thy brethren, thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, the whole of it, unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, Get you far from Jehovah: unto us is this land given for a possession.

¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Although I have removed them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.

¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from thence all its detestable things and all its abominations.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

²¹ But as for them whose heart walketh well-pleased with their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

²² And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

²³ And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

²⁴ And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity; and the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²⁵ And I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had shewn me.

¹² But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

¹³ which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means].

¹⁴ But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;

¹⁵ but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one.

¹⁶ For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.