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.

¹⁵ ¶ And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house and the walls of the ceiling; and he covered them on the inside with wood and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

¹⁶ And he built twenty cubits on the end of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar; and he built an oracle in the house, which is the holy of holies.

¹⁷ And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

¹⁸ And the cedar of the house within was carved with wild gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.

¹⁹ And he prepared the oracle in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

²⁰ And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and likewise covered the altar which was of cedar.

²¹ So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and he closed the door of the oracle with chains of gold, and he overlaid it with gold.

²² And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house; also the whole altar that was in front of the oracle he overlaid with gold.

²³ And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

²⁴ And one wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits; from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

²⁵ Likewise, the other cherub was ten cubits, for both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.

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

²⁷ And he set the cherubims within the inner house, and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

²⁸ And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

²⁹ And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

³⁰ And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

³¹ And at the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and side posts had five sides.

³² The two doors were of olive wood, and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and overlaid them with gold and covered the cherubims and the palm trees with gold.

³³ In the same manner he made posts of olive wood at the entrance of the temple with four sides.

³⁴ The two doors were of fir; the two sides of the one door were rounded, and the two leaves of the other door were rounded.

³⁵ And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

³⁶ And he built the inner court with three orders of hewed stone and an order of cedar beams.

³⁷ In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month Zif.

³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and with everything necessary. So he was seven years in building it.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it unto you.

¹⁷ This I command you, that ye love one another.

¹⁸ ¶ If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye 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 unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

²¹ But they will do all these things unto you for my name’s sake, because they do not know him that sent me.

²² If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³ He that hates me hates my Father also.

²⁴ If I had not done among them works which no other man has done, they would not have sin; but now they have seen them and hate both me and my Father.

²⁵ But this comes to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.