Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 47

The King’s Empire

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For the choir director. By the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

Praise the Great King of All the Earth!

The Death of Moses

34 Moses went up from the Plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the whole land: the territory of Gilead as far as Dan, ² all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, the whole land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea,^{[a] 3} the Negev, and the Kikkar as far as Zoar (that is, the plain in the valley around Jericho, the City of Palms).

⁴ Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, when I said I will give it to your descendants.^[b] I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over to it.”

⁵ So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said. ⁶ The Lord buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day.

⁷ Moses was one hundred twenty years old at his death. His eyes had not grown dim, and his vigor had not declined.

⁴ But I have told you these things so that when their^[a] time comes, you may remember that I told them to you. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵ “But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶ Yet because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth: It is good for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment: ⁹ about sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; ¹¹ about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.