Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

11 In the LORD I put my trust. How, then, can you say to my soul, “Flee to your mountain as a bird”?

² For lo, the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrows upon the string, so that they may secretly shoot at those who are upright in heart.

³ For if the foundations are cast down, what can the righteous do?

⁴ The LORD is in His Holy palace. The LORD’s throne is in the sky. His eyes behold. His eyelids try the children of men.

⁵ The LORD will try the righteous. But the wicked, and he who loves iniquity, His soul hates.

⁶ Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and stormy tempest. This is the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous LORD loves righteousness. His face beholds the just. To him who excels upon the eight tune: A Psalm of David.

6 And in the four hundred eightieth year (after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt), in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Ziv (which is the second month), he built the House of the LORD.

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

³ And the porch in front of the Temple of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the House, and ten cubits wide in front of the House.

⁴ And he made windows in the House, wide and narrow.

⁵ And he made galleries by the wall of the House, all around, by the walls of the House all around the Temple and the oracle and made chambers all around.

⁶ And the lowest gallery was five cubits wide, and the middle six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he made rests all around the outside of the House, so that the beams would not be fastened in the walls of the House.

⁷ And when the House was built, it was built of stone finished before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the House while it was being built.

⁸ The door of the middle chamber was on the right side of the House. And men went up, with winding stairs, into the middle and out of the middle, into the third.

⁹ So he built the House and finished it and ceiled the House, being vaulted with a ceiling of cedar trees.

¹⁰ And he built the galleries upon all the House of five cubits in height. And they were joined to the House with beams of cedar.

¹¹ And the Word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

¹² “Concerning this House which you build, if you will walk in My Ordinances and execute My Judgments and keep all My Commandments, to walk in them, then will I perform My promise to you which I promised to David, your father.

¹³ “And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people, Israel.”

¹⁴ So Solomon built the House and finished it,

²¹ And so that you may also know my affairs (and what I do) Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things.

²² I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you might know my affairs and that he might comfort your hearts.

²³ Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁴ Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ incorruptibly. Amen.

(written from Rome to the Ephesians and sent by Tychicus.)