Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
The Majesty of God
93 The Lord is king. He is clothed with majesty.
The Lord is clothed in majesty
and armed with strength.
The world is set,
and it cannot be moved.
2 Lord, your kingdom was set up long ago.
You are everlasting.
3 Lord, the seas rise up.
The seas raise their voice.
The seas lift up their pounding waves.
4 The sound of the water is loud.
The ocean waves are powerful.
But the Lord above is much greater.
5 Lord, your laws will stand forever.
Your Temple will be holy forevermore.
Great Things Israel Saw
11 Love the Lord your God. Obey his orders, rules, laws and commands. 2 Remember today it was not your children who saw and felt the correction of the Lord your God. They did not see his majesty, his power and his strength. 3 They did not see his signs and the things he did in Egypt to the king and his whole country. 4 They did not see what he did to the Egyptian army, its horses and chariots. He drowned them in the Red Sea when they were chasing you. The Lord ruined them forever. 5 They did not see what he did for you in the desert until you arrived here. 6 They did not see what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite. The ground opened up and swallowed them, their families and their tents. And it swallowed up everyone who stood with them in Israel. 7 It was you who saw all these great things the Lord has done.
8 So obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will be strong. Then you can go in and take the land you are going to own. 9 Then you will live a long time in that land. The Lord promised to give it to your ancestors and their descendants. It is a land where much food grows. 10 The land you are going to take is not like Egypt, where you were. There you had to plant your seed. Then you had to water it, like a vegetable garden, by using your feet. 11 But you will soon cross the Jordan River and take the land. It is a land of hills and valleys. It drinks rain from heaven. 12 It is a land the Lord your God loves. His eyes are on it continually. He watches it from the beginning of the year to the end.
13 Carefully obey the commands I am giving you today. Love the Lord your God. Serve him with your whole being. 14 Then he will send rain on your land at the right time, in the fall and spring. You will be able to gather your grain, new wine and oil. 15 He will put grass in the fields for your cattle. You will have plenty to eat.
16 Be careful. Don’t be fooled. Don’t turn away and serve other gods. Don’t worship them. 17 If you do, the Lord will become angry with you. He will shut the heavens so it will not rain. Then the land will not grow crops. And you will soon die in the good land the Lord is giving you.
13 Before God and Christ Jesus I give you a command. Christ Jesus confessed that same great truth when he stood before Pontius Pilate. And God gives life to everything. Now I tell you: 14 Do the things you were commanded to do. Do them without wrong or blame until the time when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 15 God will make that happen at the right time. He is the blessed and only Ruler. He is the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. 16 God is the only One who never dies. He lives in light so bright that men cannot go near it. No one has ever seen God, or can see him. May honor and power belong to God forever. Amen.
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