Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm, a Song, for the Sabbath day.

92 It is good to give thanks unto Jehovah, and to sing psalms unto thy name, O Most High;

² To declare thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness in the nights,

³ Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp.

⁴ For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

¹² The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.

¹³ Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God:

¹⁴ They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

¹⁵ To shew that Jehovah is upright: [he is] my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

15 A soft answer turneth away fury; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.

² The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of the foolish poureth out folly.

³ The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

⁴ Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

⁵ A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent.

⁶ In the house of a righteous [man] is much treasure; but in the revenue of a wicked [man] is disturbance.

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but not so the heart of the foolish.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

⁹ The way of a wicked [man] is an abomination to Jehovah; but him that pursueth righteousness he loveth.

¹³ But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

¹⁵ (For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

¹⁶ for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

¹⁷ then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the] air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord.

¹⁸ So encourage one another with these words.)