Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 93^[a]

God Is a Mighty King

Chapter 11

Recalling the Wonders of the Lord. ¹ Love the Lord, your God, therefore, and keep his charge, statutes, ordinances, and commandments always.^{(A) 2} Recall today that it was not your children, who have neither known nor seen the discipline of the Lord, your God—his greatness, his strong hand and outstretched arm;^{(B) 3} the signs and deeds he wrought in the midst of Egypt, on Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and on all his land;^{(C) 4} what he did to the Egyptian army and to their horses and chariots, engulfing them in the waters of the Red Sea^[a] as they pursued you,^(D) so that the Lord destroyed them even to this day; ⁵ what he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; ⁶ and what he did to the Reubenites Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up out of the midst of Israel, with their families and tents and every living thing that belonged to them—^{(E) 7} but it was you who saw with your own eyes all these great deeds that the Lord has done.

The Gift of Rain. ^8 (F)So keep all the commandments I give you today, that you may be strong enough to enter in and take possession of the land that you are crossing over to possess, ⁹ and that you may have long life on the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ The land you are to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you would sow your seed and then water it by hand,^[b] as in a vegetable garden. ^11 (G)No, the land into which you are crossing to take possession is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in rain from the heavens, ¹² a land which the Lord, your God, looks after; the eyes of the Lord, your God, are upon it continually through the year, from beginning to end.

^13 [c](H)If, then, you truly listen to my commandments which I give you today, loving and serving the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being, ¹⁴ I will give the seasonal rain to your land, the early rain^[d] and the late rain, that you may have your grain, wine and oil to gather in; ¹⁵ and I will bring forth grass in your fields for your animals. Thus you may eat and be satisfied. ^16 (I)But be careful lest your heart be so lured away that you serve other gods and bow down to them.^{(J) 17} For then the anger of the Lord will flare up against you and he will close up the heavens, so that no rain will fall, and the soil will not yield its crops, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.

¹³ I charge [you] before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession,^{(A) 14} to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ ¹⁵ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and Lord of lords,^{(B) 16} who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.^(C)

Right Use of Wealth.^[a]