Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm 93^[a]

Glory of the Lord’s Kingdom

Chapter 11

God’s Mighty Deeds. ¹ You shall love the Lord, your God, and observe his ordinances, his statutes, his decrees, and his commandments always. ² Remember this day, for I am now not speaking with your children, who did not experience the discipline of the Lord, your God, his majesty, his mighty hand and outstretched arm, ³ and the signs and deeds he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to the whole land, ⁴ what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and chariots, how he caused the waters of the Red Sea to flow over them as they pursued you, for the Lord brought a lasting destruction upon them, ⁵ and what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived here, ⁶ and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, how he opened a hole in the ground right in the midst of the Israelites that swallowed them up, them and their households and their tents and all of their possessions. ⁷ You have seen with your own eyes all of these great deeds that the Lord has done.

⁸ Therefore, keep all of the commandments that I give you today so that you may be strong and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess ⁹ and so that the Lord may prolong your life in the land that the Lord promised to give to your forefathers and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰ The land that you are entering to take possession of is not like the land of Egypt out of which you have come. There you planted your seeds and watered the plants by hand,^[a] like you would in a vegetable garden. ¹¹ The land that you are entering to take possession of is a land of hills and valleys that obtains its water from the rain of the skies. ¹² It is a land that the Lord, your God, cares for, the Lord, your God, continuously keeps his eyes on it, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year.

^13 [b]If you carefully observe the commandments that I give you today, to love the Lord, your God, and to serve him with all your heart and soul, ¹⁴ then he will provide the rain upon the land in its proper season, the fall rains and the spring rains, so that you can harvest your grain, your wine, and your oil. ¹⁵ I will provide grass in your field for your cattle, so that you may eat until you are full.

¹⁶ Only be careful not to let yourself be enticed, turning away and serving other gods, worshiping them. ¹⁷ Then the Lord’s anger would lash out against you. He would shut up the heavens so that there would be no rain, no produce from the land. Beware lest you soon perish in the good land that the Lord is giving you.

¹³ In the sight of God, who gave life to all things, and before Jesus Christ, who himself made that noble confession of faith in his testimony before Pontius Pilate, I charge you ¹⁴ to obey the commands of God without fault or failure until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ which he will make manifest at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only ruler of all, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. ¹⁶ He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has seen him or is able to do so. To him be honor and everlasting power. Amen.