Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song of degrees.

125 They that confide in Jehovah are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved; it abideth for ever.

² Jerusalem!—mountains are round about her, and Jehovah is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore.

³ For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

⁴ Do good, O Jehovah, unto the good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

⁵ But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

18 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.

² And Elijah went to shew himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

³ And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the steward of his house (now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly;

⁴ and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);

⁵ and Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the fountains of water and to all the torrents, perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, so that we may not have to destroy some of [our] beasts.

⁶ And they divided the land between them to pass through it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

⁷ And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him; and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it indeed thou, my lord Elijah?

⁸ And he said to him, I [am he]: go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!

⁹ And he said, What have I sinned, that thou givest thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to put me to death?

¹⁰ As Jehovah thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord has not sent to seek thee; and when they said, He is not [here], he took an oath of the kingdom or nation that they found thee not.

¹¹ And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!

¹² And it shall come to pass when I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will kill me; and I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

¹³ Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water?

¹⁴ And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah! and he will kill me.

¹⁵ And Elijah said, As Jehovah of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will certainly shew myself to him to-day.

¹⁶ Then Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.

¹⁷ And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, the troubler of Israel?

¹⁸ And he said, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and thou hast followed the Baals.

¹⁰ For the rest, brethren, be strong in [the] Lord, and in the might of his strength.

¹¹ Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

¹² because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.

¹³ For this reason take [to you] the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

¹⁵ and shod your feet with [the] preparation of the glad tidings of peace:

¹⁶ besides all [these], having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.

¹⁷ Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;