Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song of degrees.

¹ ¶ Those that trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but abides for ever.

² As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from now on even for ever.

³ For the rod of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous because the righteous shall not put forth their hands unto iniquity.

⁴ ¶ Do good, O LORD, unto those that are good and to those that are upright in their hearts.

⁵ As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall take them away with the workers of iniquity; and peace shall be upon Israel.

¹⁶ Then those that feared the LORD spoke one to another, and the LORD hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for those that feared the LORD and for those that think in his name.

¹⁷ And they shall be mine, said the LORD of the hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.

¹⁸ Therefore become ye converted, and ye shall make a difference between the just and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that did not serve him.

4 ¶ For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of the hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

² But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness be born, and in his wings he shall bring saving health; and ye shall go forth and jump like calves of the herd.

³ And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, said the LORD of the hosts.

⁴ ¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my slave, which I commanded unto him in Horeb statutes and my rights over all Israel.

⁵ Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD:

⁶ and he shall convert the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with destruction.

⁹ And as they came down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen until the Son of man was risen from the dead.

¹⁰ And they kept the word within themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should be.

¹¹ And they asked him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

¹² And he answered and told them, Elijah verily shall come first and restore all things and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things and be esteemed as nothing.

¹³ But I say unto you, That Elijah has indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they wished, as it is written of him.