Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

93 The LORD reigns and is clothed with majesty. The LORD is clothed and girded with power. Also, the world shall be established, so that it cannot be moved.

² Your throne is established of old. You are from everlasting.

³ The floods have lifted up, O LORD. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

⁴ The waves of the sea are marvelous through the noise of many waters. The LORD on High is more mighty.

⁵ Your testimonies are very sure. Holiness becomes Your House, O LORD, forever.

7 “When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess, and shall root out many nations before you—the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you—

² “and the LORD your God shall give them before you, then you shall strike them. You shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them or have compassion on them.

³ “Nor shall you make marriages with them or give your daughter to his son or take his daughter to your son.

⁴ ‘For they will cause your son to turn away from Me, and to serve other gods.’ Then the wrath of the LORD will grow hot against you and destroy you suddenly.

⁵ “But you shall deal with them like this: You shall overthrow their altars and break down their pillars. And you shall cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.

⁶ “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all people who are upon the Earth.

⁷ “The LORD did not set His love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people (for you were the fewest of all people)

⁸ “but because the LORD loved you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers. The LORD has brought you out by a mighty Hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,

⁹ “so that you may know that the LORD your God, He is God. He is the faithful God Who keeps Covenant and mercy to those who love Him and keep His Commandments, to a thousand generations.

¹⁰ “And He rewards those who hate Him to their face, to bring them to destruction. He will not hesitate to reward him who hates Him, to his face.

¹¹ “Therefore, keep the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which I command you this day, to do them.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee these things! And pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.

¹² Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.