Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
27 The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked—even my enemies—and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army encamped against me, my heart shall not be afraid. Though war is raised against me, I will trust in this.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that I will require: That I may dwell in the House of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD and to visit His Temple.
5 For in the time of trouble, He shall hide me in His Tabernacle. In the secret place of His pavilion, He shall hide me and set me up upon a rock.
6 And now, He shall lift up my head above my enemies all around me. Therefore, I will offer sacrifices of joy in His Tabernacle. I will sing and praise the LORD.
7 Hear my voice, O LORD, when I cry. Have mercy, also, upon me and hear me.
8 When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart answered You, “O LORD, I will seek Your face.”
9 Do not hide, therefore, Your face from me, nor cast Your servant away in displeasure. You have been my succor; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 Though my father and my mother should forsake me, yet the LORD will gather me up.
11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a right path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not give me to the lust of my adversaries. For there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak cruelly.
13 I should have fainted, except I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Hope in the LORD. Be strong, and He shall comfort Your heart; and trust in the LORD. A Psalm of David.
17 After he returned from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who were with him, the King of Sodom came forth to meet him in the valley of Shaveh (which is the King’s dale).
18 And Melchizedek, King of Salem, brought forth bread and wine; and he was a Priest of the Most High God.
19 Therefore, he blessed him, saying, “Abram, you are blessed of God Most High, Possessor of Heaven and Earth.
20 “And blessed be the Most High God, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And Abram gave him tithes of all.
21 Then, the King of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the souls, and take the goods for yourself.”
22 “And Abram said to the King of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, the Most High God, Possessor of Heaven and Earth,
23 “so that I will not take all that is yours, from thread to shoe latchet (lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich’),
24 “except that which the young men have eaten and the portions of the men which went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their parts.”
17 Brothers, be imitators of me and observe those who also walk thus (as you have us for an example).
18 For many walk of whom I have often told you (and tell you now, weeping) who are the enemies of the cross of Christ;
19 whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their knowledge of earthly things, to their shame.
20 But our citizenship is in Heaven, from where we also look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
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