Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

97 Hashem reigneth; let ha’aretz rejoice; let the multitude of isles thereof be glad.

² Anan and darkness are round about Him; tzedek and mishpat are the foundation of His kisse.

³ Eish goeth before Him, and burneth up His enemies on every side.

⁴ His lightnings light up the tevel; ha’aretz saw, and trembled.

⁵ The harim melted like wax at the presence of Hashem, at the presence of Adon kol HaAretz.

⁶ HaShomayim declare His tzedek, and kol ha’amim see His kavod.

⁷ Shamed be all they that serve pesel, that boast themselves of elilim; worship Him, kol elohim.

⁸ Tziyon heard, and was glad; and the banot Yehudah rejoiced because of Thy mishpatim, Hashem.

⁹ For Thou, Hashem, art Elyon above kol ha’aretz; Thou art exalted far above kol elohim.

¹⁰ Ye that love Hashem, hate rah; He preserveth the nefashot of His chasidim; He delivereth them out of the yad resha’im.

¹¹ Ohr dawns for the tzaddik, and simchah for the yishrei lev (upright in heart).

¹² Rejoice in Hashem, ye tzaddikim; and give thanks at the remembrance of His kodesh (holiness).

33 And Hashem said unto Moshe, Depart, and go from here, thou and HaAm which thou hast brought up out of Eretz Mitzrayim, unto HaAretz which I swore unto Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya’akov, saying, Unto thy zera will I give it;

² And I will send a Malach before thee; and I will drive out the Kena’ani, the Emori, the Chitti, the Perizzi, the Chivi, and the Yevusi;

³ Unto an Eretz zavat cholov and devash; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art an Am Kesheh Oref (stiffnecked, obstinate people); lest I consume thee in HaDerech.

⁴ And when HaAm heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no ish did put on him his ornamental attire.

⁵ For Hashem had said unto Moshe, Say unto the Bnei Yisroel, Ye are an Am Kesheh Oref; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornamental attire from thee, that I may decide what to do unto thee.

⁶ And the Bnei Yisroel stripped themselves of their ornamental attire by Mt. Chorev.

¹³ Achim b’Moshiach, I do not consider myself to have laid hold (3:12); but one zach (thing) I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching forward to the things ahead,

¹⁴ According to the tachlis I pursue the prize of the Shomayim Aliyah ascent of Hashem, the upward k’riah (call) of HaShem b’Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua (2K 1:10; 2:12).

¹⁵ Therefore, as many as would be shleimut, let us think like this (2:5-8): and if in anything your machshavot (thoughts) are different [Mt 5:48; 2C 2:6], even this Hashem will reveal to you.

¹⁶ Fort (nevertheless), let us march in line with what we have attained, let us hold to the same [Ga 6:16].

¹⁷ Achim b’Moshiach, together be imitators of me [1C 4:16; 11:1]. Take note of the ones walking as you have a mofet in us [2:5-30; 1Th 1:7; 1K 5:3].

¹⁸ For many, of whom I was often telling you, and now also I say with weeping, walk as oyvim (enemies) of Moshiach’s Etz [DEVARIM 21:23; 27:26; Ga 3:13; 1C 1:23; Ga 6:12 cf Pp 2:8].

¹⁹ Their destined end [TEHILLIM 73:17] is churban (destruction, Gehinnom). Their g-d is their appetite [Ro 16:18], and their kavod, what they glory in, is their bushah (shame). Their machshavot are set on the Olam Hazeh [Ro 8:5-6].

²⁰ But the torat haEzrakhut (citizenship-see 1:27) we conduct exists in Shomayim [Ep 2:6; MJ 12:22; Ga 4:26; 6:16], from where also we eagerly await a Moshi’a (Savior), a Go’el, Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,

²¹ Who will transfigure the basar of our humiliation into the demut of the mode of being of the guf kavod of Moshiach, according to the pe’ulah (action, work—1:6; 2:13) of his ko’ach (power) [Ro 8:29;1C 15:43 53], even to the subjecting of all things to himself [1C 15:28]. T.N. The joyous tone of this letter is miraculous, given the fact that Rav Sha’ul is, as he is writing it, in danger of capital punishment by decapitation at anytime and without warning. But Sha’ul selflessly thinks about two quarreling women and the danger their quarrel poses to the kehillah in Philippi. He seems to have been leading up to this statement in 4:2: “I appeal to Euodias and I appeal to Syntyche, think the same thing in Adoneinu.” ]

4 So then, my achim ahuvim whom I have a tshuka (longing) for, my simcha and crown (1Th 2:19-20), stand firm in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu.