Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

11 To the Overseer. -- By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, `They moved [to] Thy mountain for the bird?

² For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

³ When the foundations are destroyed, The righteous -- what hath he done?

⁴ `Jehovah [is] in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens [is] His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men.

⁵ Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

⁶ He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind [is] the portion of their cup.

⁷ For righteous [is] Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

¹³ And king Solomon lifteth up a tribute out of all Israel, and the tribute is thirty thousand men,

¹⁴ and he sendeth them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, by changes, a month they are in Lebanon, two months in their own house; and Adoniram [is] over the tribute.

¹⁵ And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,

¹⁶ apart from the heads of the officers of Solomon, who [are] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, those ruling over the people who are working in the business.

¹⁷ And the king commandeth, and they bring great stones, precious stone, to lay the foundation of the house, hewn stones;

¹⁸ and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew, and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.

²¹ subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

²² The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

²³ because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

²⁴ but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] with the bathing of the water in the saying,

²⁷ that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

²⁸ so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

²⁹ for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

³¹ `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

³² this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

³³ but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

6 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

² honour thy father and mother,

³ which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

⁴ And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

⁵ The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

⁶ not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

⁷ with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

⁸ having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

⁹ And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.