Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

46 To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' -- A song. God [is] to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

² Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.

³ Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.

⁴ A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

⁵ God [is] in her midst -- she is not moved, God doth help her at the turn of the morn!

⁶ Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

⁷ Jehovah of Hosts [is] with us, A tower for us [is] the God of Jacob. Selah.

⁸ Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,

⁹ Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

¹⁰ Desist, and know that I [am] God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

¹¹ Jehovah of hosts [is] with us, A tower for us [is] the God of Jacob! Selah.

¹² And the messenger who hath gone to call for Micaiah hath spoken unto him, saying, `Lo, the words of the prophets -- one mouth -- [are] good towards the king, and let, I pray thee, thy word be like one of theirs: and thou hast spoken good.'

¹³ And Micaiah saith `Jehovah liveth, surely that which my God saith, it I speak.'

¹⁴ And he cometh in unto the king, and the king saith unto him, `Micaiah, do we go unto Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' And he saith, `Go ye up, and prosper, and they are given into your hand.'

¹⁵ And the king saith unto him, `How many times am I adjuring thee, that thou speak unto me only truth in the name of Jehovah?'

¹⁶ And he saith, `I have seen all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd, and Jehovah saith, There are no masters to these, they turn back each to his house in peace.'

¹⁷ And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Did I not say unto thee, He doth not prophesy concerning me good, but rather of evil?'

¹⁸ And he saith, `Therefore, hear ye a word of Jehovah: I have seen Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing on His right and His left;

¹⁹ and Jehovah saith, Who doth entice Ahab king of Israel, and he doth go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? And this speaker saith thus, and that speaker thus.

²⁰ And go out doth the spirit, and stand before Jehovah, and saith, I do entice him; and Jehovah saith unto him, With what?

²¹ and he saith, I go out, and have become a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets. And He saith, Thou dost entice, and also, thou art able; go out and do so.

²² And, now, lo, Jehovah hath put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of these thy prophets, and Jehovah hath spoken concerning thee -- evil.'

²³ [It is] necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

²⁴ for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

²⁵ nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;

²⁶ since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

²⁷ and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

²⁸ so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!