Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ The voice of Yahweh rolls over the water.
    The El of glory thunders.
        Yahweh shouts over raging water.
⁴ The voice of Yahweh is powerful.
    The voice of Yahweh is majestic.
⁵ The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars.
    Yahweh splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶         He makes Lebanon skip along like a calf
            and Mount Sirion like a wild ox.
⁷ The voice of Yahweh strikes with flashes of lightning.
⁸ The voice of Yahweh makes the wilderness tremble.
    Yahweh makes the wilderness of Kadesh tremble.
⁹ The voice of Yahweh splits the oaks^[a]
    and strips the trees of the forests bare.
        Everyone in his temple is saying, “Glory!”

¹⁰ Yahweh sat enthroned over the flood.
    Yahweh sits enthroned as Melek forever.
¹¹ Yahweh will give power to his people.
    Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

² In the last days the mountain of Yahweh’s house
    will be established as the highest of the mountains
        and raised above the hills.
            All the nations will stream to it.
³ Then many people will come and say,
    “Let’s go to the mountain of Yahweh,
        to the house of the Elohim of Jacob.
            He will teach us his ways so that we may live by them.”
    The teachings will go out from Zion.
    The word of Yahweh will go out from Jerusalem.
⁴ Then he will judge disputes between nations
    and settle arguments between many people.
    They will hammer their swords into plowblades
        and their spears into pruning shears.
    Nations will never fight against each other,
        and they will never train for war again.
⁵ Come, descendants of Jacob,
    let’s live in the light of Yahweh.