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.

¹⁵ and built the inside walls of the House with boards of cedar, from the pavement of the House to the walls of the ceiling. And he covered them inside with wood and covered the floor of the House with planks of fir.

¹⁶ And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the House with boards of cedar, from the floor to the walls. And he prepared a place within it for the oracle, the Most Holy Place.

¹⁷ But the House, that is, the Temple before it, was forty cubits.

¹⁸ And the cedar inside the House was carved with gourds, and engraved with flowers, all cedar. No stone was seen.

¹⁹ Also, he prepared the place of the oracle inside, in the midst of the House, to set the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD there.

²⁰ And the place of the oracle inside was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high. And he covered it with pure gold and covered the Altar with cedar.

²¹ So, Solomon covered the House inside with pure gold. And he shut the place of the oracle with chains of gold and covered it with gold.

²² And he overlaid all the House with gold, until all the House was made perfect. Also, he covered the whole Altar that was before the oracle with gold.

²³ And inside the oracle he made two Cherubim of olive, ten cubits high.

²⁴ Also, the wing of one Cherub was five cubits. And the wing of the other Cherub was five cubits. From the outermost part of one of his wings to the outermost part of the other of his wings, was ten cubits.

²⁵ Also, the other Cherub was ten cubits. Both the Cherubim were of the same measure and size.

²⁶ The height of one Cherub was ten cubits and so was the other Cherub.

²⁷ And he put the Cherubim inside the inner House. And the Cherubim stretched out their wings, so that the wing of one touched one wall and the wing of the other Cherub touched the other wall. And their other wings touched one another in the midst of the House.

²⁸ And he overlaid the Cherubim with gold.

²⁹ And he carved all the walls of the House, all around, with engraved figures of Cherubim and of palm trees and engraved flowers, inside and outside.

³⁰ And he covered the floor of the House with gold, inside and outside.

³¹ And in the entrance to the oracle he made two doors of olive. The upper post and side posts were five square.

³² The two doors were also of olive. And he engraved them with engravings of Cherubim and palm trees and engraved flowers and covered them with gold and laid thin gold upon the Cherubim and upon the palm trees.

³³ And so he made foursquare posts of olive for the door of the Temple.

³⁴ But the two doors were of fir. The two sides of one door were round, and the two sides of the other door were round.

³⁵ And he engraved Cherubim and palm trees and carved flowers, and covered the carved work with finely-worked gold.

³⁶ And he built the court inside with three rows of hewn stone, and one row of beams of cedar.

³⁷ In the fourth year, the foundation of the House of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.

³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (which is the eighth month), he finished the House, with all its furniture, and in every point. So, he was seven years in building it.

¹⁶ “You have not chosen Me. But I have chosen you, and ordained you, so that you go and bring forth fruits and that your fruit remains, so that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you.

¹⁷ “These things I command you, so that you love one another.

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before you.

¹⁹ “If you were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²⁰ “Remember the Word that I said to you, ‘the servant is not greater than his master’. If they have persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept My Word, they will also keep yours.

²¹ “But all these things they will do to you for My Name’s sake, because they have not known Him who sent Me.

²² “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin. But now they have no cloak for their sin.

²³ “Whoever hates Me, hates My Father also.

²⁴ “If I had not done works among those whom no other did, they would not have sin. Now, however, they have both seen and hated both My Father and Me.

²⁵ But this is so the Word which is written in their Law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause’.