Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
God Provides for and Protects His People
For the music director. Of the sons of Korah.
According to Alamoth. A song.[a]
46 God is our refuge and strength,
a very sufficient help in troubles.
2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth change,
and though the mountains totter into the midst[b] of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam,
though mountains shake with its surging water. Selah
4 There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God,
the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her;
she will not be made to totter.
God will help her at daybreak.[c]
6 Nations roar, kingdoms shake;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
7 Yahweh of hosts is with us;
our high stronghold is the God of Jacob. Selah
8 Come, see the works of Yahweh,
who has placed desolations on the earth.
9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
he breaks the bow and cuts off the spear.
The wagons of war he burns with fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations;
I will be exalted in the earth.
11 Yahweh of Hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our high stronghold.
The Generations of Heaven and Earth
4 These are the generations[a] of heaven[b] and earth[c] when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven[d]— 5 before any plant of the field was[e] on earth, and before any plant of the field[f] had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground, 6 but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground— 7 when[g] Yahweh God formed the man[h] of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
8 And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man[i] whom he had formed. 9 And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, along with[j] the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 Now[k] a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stones are there.) 13 And the name of the second is Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 And Yahweh God took the man[l] and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it. 16 And Yahweh God commanded the man,[m] saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat,[n] 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[o] from it you shall surely die.”[p]
18 Then[q] Yahweh God said, “it is not good that the man[r] is alone. I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.”[s] 19 And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky,[t] and he brought each to the man[u] to see what he would call it. And whatever the man[v] called that living creature was its name. 20 And the man[w] gave names[x] to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven[y] and to all the wild animals.[z] But for the man there was not found a helper as his counterpart.[aa] 21 And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man.[ab] While[ac] he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh where it had been.[ad] 22 And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the man[ae] into a woman and brought her to the man.[af] 23 And the man[ag] said,
“She is now[ah] bone from my bones
and flesh from my flesh;
she[ai] shall be called ‘Woman,’
for she was taken[aj] from man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh. 25 And the man[ak] and his wife, both of them, were naked, and they were not ashamed.
6 But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel, 7 nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but “In Isaac will your descendants be named.”[a] 8 That is, it is not the children by human descent[b] who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants. 9 For the statement of the promise is this: “At this time I will return and Sarah will have[c] a son.”[d] 10 And not only this, but also when[e] Rebecca conceived children by one man,[f] Isaac our father— 11 for although they[g] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain, 12 not by works but by the one who calls—it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”[h] 13 just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[i]
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