Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

91 Whoever dwells in the secret of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say to the LORD, “O my Hope, and my Fortress! My God!” In Him will I trust.

³ Surely, He will deliver you from the snare of the hunter, from the calamitous pestilence.

⁴ He will cover you under His wings. And you shall be sure under his feathers. His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

⁵ You shall not be afraid of the fear of the night; of the arrow that flies by day;

⁶ of the pestilence that walks in the darkness; of the plague that destroys at noon day.

¹⁴ “Because he has loved Me, therefore will I deliver him. I will exalt him because he has known My Name.

¹⁵ “He shall call upon Me, and I will hear him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and glorify him.

¹⁶ “I will satisfy him with long life and show him my salvation.” A Psalm, or song, for the Sabbath day

²³ “Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a far off God?”

²⁴ “Can anyone hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him,” says the LORD? “Do not I fill Heaven and Earth,” says the LORD?

²⁵ “I have heard what the prophets said who prophesied lies in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed.’

²⁶ “How long do the prophets delight to prophesy lies, even prophesying the deceit of their own heart?

²⁷ “Do they intend to cause My people to forget My Name by their dreams, which everyone tells his neighbor, as their forefathers have forgotten My Name for Baal?

²⁸ “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat,” says the LORD?

²⁹ “Is not My Word like a fire,” says the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks the stone?

³⁰ “Therefore, behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who steal My Word, each one from his neighbor.

³¹ “Behold, I will come against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who have sweet tongues, and say, ‘He says.’

³² “Behold, I will come against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their flatteries. And I did not send them or command them. Therefore, they bring no profit to this people,” says the LORD.

2 And you were dead in trespasses and sins

² (wherein you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the authority of the ruler of the air, even the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

³ among whom all of us also once lived in the lusts of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the mind; and were, by nature, the children of wrath, just as the rest).

⁴ But God, Who is rich in mercy, through His great love with which He loved us,

⁵ even when we were dead by sins, has quickened us together in Christ (by grace you are saved)

⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus;

⁷ so that He might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of His grace through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace are you saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift from God

⁹ (not of works, lest anyone should boast).

¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works; which God has ordained, so that we would walk in them.