Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
125 Those who trust in the LORD shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but remains forever.
2 As the mountains are around Jerusalem, so the LORD is around His people from henceforth and forever.
3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hand to wickedness.
4 Do well, O LORD, to those who are good and true in their hearts.
5 But those who turn aside by their crooked ways, they shall be led by the LORD with the workers of iniquity. Peace upon Israel! A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David
18 After many days, the Word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the Earth.”
2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. and a great famine was in Samaria.
3 And Ahab called Obadiah, the governor of his House. And Obadiah feared God greatly.
4 For when Jezebel destroyed the Prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred Prophets and hid them in a cave, by fifties. And he fed them with bread and water.
5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all the fountains of water, and to all the rivers, if so be that we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, lest we deprive the land of the beasts.”
6 And so, they divided the land between them, to walk through it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
7 And as Obadiah was on the road, behold, Elijah met him. And he knew him and fell on his face, and said, “Are not you my lord, Elijah?”
8 And he answered him, “Yes. Go tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah.’”
9 And he said, “What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
10 “As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom or nation that they had not found you.
11 “And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah.”’
12 “And when I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you into some place that I do not know. So, when I come and tell Ahab, if he cannot find you, then he will kill me! But I, your servant, fear the LORD from my youth.
13 “Was it not told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the Prophets of the LORD? How I hid a hundred men of the LORD’s Prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?
14 “And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah,”’ so that he may kill me.’
15 And Elijah said, “As the LORD of Hosts lives, before Whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him this day.”
16 So, Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17 And when Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Are you he who troubles Israel?”
18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but rather you and your father’s House, in that you have forsaken the Commandments of the LORD, and you have followed Baal.
10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceit of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the kings, against the authorities, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world; against the spiritual forces of iniquity which are in the high place.
13 For this reason take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on the evil day. And having finished all things, stand fast.
14 Stand therefore, having wrapped your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
16 Above all, take the shield of Faith, with which you may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
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