Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ I put my trust in the LORD: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

² For, behold, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

³ The foundations shall be destroyed. What has the righteous done?

⁴ ¶ The LORD is in the temple of his holiness, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

⁵ The LORD tries the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.

⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, with winds of whirlwinds: this shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance beholds the upright.

6 ¶ And it came to pass in the year four hundred and eighty after the sons of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the beginning of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

² And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

³ And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the house; and its width was ten cubits before the house.

⁴ And for the house he made windows broad within and narrow without.

⁵ And against the wall of the house, he built wings round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made chambers round about.

⁶ The lower wing was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide, for without in the wall of the house, he had made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

⁷ And the house, when it was built, was put together of perfect stones made ready before they were brought there; so that there was no hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.

⁸ The door for the middle wing was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle wing and out of the middle into the third.

⁹ So he built the house and finished it and covered the house with work of cedar placed in order.

¹⁰ And then he built the wing against all the house, five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

¹¹ ¶ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

¹² Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes and execute my rights and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will perform my word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father;

¹³ and I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.

¹⁴ So Solomon built the house and finished it.

²¹ But that ye also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, shall make known to you all things,

²² whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs and that he might comfort your hearts.

²³ Peace be to the brethren and charity with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴ Grace be with all those that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.