Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

89 I will sing the mercies of the LORD forever. With my mouth I will declare Your truth from generation to generation.

² For I said, “Mercy shall be set up forever. Your truth shall You establish in the very heavens.

³ “I have made a covenant with My Chosen. I have sworn to David My servant,

⁴ “‘Your Seed will I establish forever and set up your Throne from generation to generation.’” Selah.

¹⁹ You spoke, then, in a vision to Your holy one, and said, “I have laid help upon one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

²⁰ “I have found David, My servant. With My holy oil have I anointed him.

²¹ “Therefore, My hand shall be established with him and My arm shall strengthen him.

²² “The enemy shall not oppress him, nor shall the wicked hurt him.

²³ “But I will destroy his foes before his face and plague those who hate him.

²⁴ “My truth also, and My mercy, shall be with him; and in My Name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵ “I will also set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.

²⁶ “He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

6 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel: thirty thousand.

² And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up the Ark of God from there, whose name comes from the Name of the LORD of Hosts, Who dwells upon it between the Cherubim.

³ And they put the Ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

⁴ And when they brought the Ark of God out of the house of Abinadab that was at Gibeah, Ahio went before the Ark.

⁵ And David and all the House of Israel played before the LORD on all instruments made of fir, and on harps, and on psalteries, and on tambourines, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

⁶ And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put his hand on the Ark of God and held it. For the oxen shook it.

⁷ And the LORD was very angry with Uzzah. And God struck him in that same place for his fault. And there he died, by the Ark of God.

⁸ And David was displeased because the LORD had stricken Uzzah. And he called the name of the place “Perez Uzzah” until this day.

⁹ Therefore, David feared the LORD that day, and said, “How shall the Ark of the LORD come to me?”

¹⁰ So David would not bring the Ark of the LORD to him into the City of David. But David carried it into the house of Obed-Edom, a Gittite.

¹¹ And the Ark of the LORD stayed in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. And the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

1 Long ago, at various times and in diverse ways, God spoke to our fathers by the Prophets. In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son,

² Whom He has made heir of all things. Through Whom He also made the world.

³ He, being the brightness of the Glory and the engraved form of His person and bearing up all things by His mighty Word, has purged our sins through Himself. And He sits at the right hand of the Majesty in the Highest Places.

⁴ And He is made so much more excellent than the angels, inasmuch as He has obtained a more excellent Name than they.