Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm 47

God Our King

For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

Moses’ Death

34 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,^(A) which faces Jericho, and the Lord showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan, ² all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean^[a] Sea, ³ the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. ⁴ The Lord then said to him, “This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’^(B) I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

⁵ So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said. ⁶ He buried him^[b] in the valley^(C) in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.^{(D) 7} Moses was 120 years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.

⁴ But I have told you these things so that when their time^[a] comes you may remember^(A) I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

The Counselor’s Ministry

⁵ “But now I am going away^(B) to Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’^{(C) 6} Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth.^(D) It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.^{(E) 8} When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: ⁹ About sin, because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to the Father^(F) and you will no longer see Me; ¹¹ and about judgment,^(G) because the ruler of this world^(H) has been judged.^(I)