Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

93 Jehovah is King! He is robed in majesty and strength. The world is his throne.^[a]

² O Lord, you have reigned from prehistoric times, from the everlasting past. ³ The mighty oceans thunder your praise. ⁴ You are mightier than all the breakers pounding on the seashores of the world! ⁵ Your royal decrees cannot be changed. Holiness is forever the keynote of your reign.

11 “You must love the Lord your God and obey every one of his commands. ² Listen! I am not talking now to your children who have never experienced the Lord’s punishments or seen his greatness and his awesome power. ³ They weren’t there to see the miracles he did in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land. ⁴ They didn’t see what God did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you, and how the Lord has kept them powerless against you until this very day! ⁵ They didn’t see how the Lord cared for you time and again through all the years you were wandering in the wilderness, until your arrival here. ⁶ They weren’t there when Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, descendants^[a] of Reuben) sinned, and the earth opened up and swallowed them, with their households and tents and all their belongings, as all Israel watched!

⁷ “But you have seen these mighty miracles! ⁸ How carefully, then, you should obey these commandments I am going to give you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land you are about to enter. ⁹ If you obey the commandments, you will have a long and good life in the land the Lord promised to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a wonderful land ‘flowing with milk and honey’! ¹⁰ For the land you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt where you have come from, where irrigation is necessary. ¹¹ It is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain— ¹² a land that the Lord your God personally cares for! His eyes are always upon it, day after day throughout the year!

¹³ “And if you will carefully obey all of his commandments that I am going to give you today, and if you will love the Lord your God with all your hearts and souls and will worship him, ¹⁴ then he will continue to send both the early and late rains that will produce wonderful crops of grain, grapes for your wine, and olive oil. ¹⁵ He will give you lush pastureland for your cattle to graze in, and you yourselves shall have plenty to eat and be fully content.

¹⁶ “But beware that your hearts do not turn from God to worship other gods. ¹⁷ For if you do, the anger of the Lord will be hot against you, and he will shut the heavens—there will be no rain and no harvest, and you will quickly perish from the good land the Lord has given you.

¹³ I command you before God, who gives life to all, and before Christ Jesus, who gave a fearless testimony before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴ that you fulfill all he has told you to do so that no one can find fault with you from now until our Lord Jesus Christ returns. ¹⁵ For in due season Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only Almighty God, the King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶ who alone can never die, who lives in light so terrible that no human being can approach him. No mere man has ever seen him nor ever will. Unto him be honor and everlasting power and dominion forever and ever. Amen.