Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Confidence in Yahweh’s Righteousness
For the music director. Of David.[a]
11 In Yahweh I have taken refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
“Flee to your mountain like a bird”?
2 For look: The wicked string the bow.[b]
They have fitted their arrow to the string,
to shoot from the darkness
at the upright of heart.
3 When the foundations are destroyed
what can the righteous do?[c]
4 Yahweh is in his holy temple;
Yahweh is in the heavens on his throne.
His eyelids see;
they test the children of humankind.
5 Yahweh tests the righteous,
but the wicked and the lover of violence
his soul hates.
6 He will rain coals[d] on the wicked.
Burning sulfur and scorching wind
will be the portion of their cup.
7 For Yahweh is righteous;
he loves righteous deeds.
The upright shall see his face.
Solomon Builds the Temple for Yahweh
6 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites[a] went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s rule[b] over Israel, the month of Ziv (that is the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh. 2 Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height. 3 The vestibule on the face of the main hall of the temple[c] was twenty cubits in its length, and the width of the temple[d] was ten cubits wide on the face of the temple.[e] 4 And he made for the temple[f] specially designed framed windows, 5 and he built a structure against the wall of the temple[g] running all along the walls of the house, for the outer sanctuary and for the inner sanctuary, and made side rooms all around. 6 The lower structure was five cubits in its width and the middle was six cubits in its width and the third was seven cubits in its width, for he made niches for the temple[h] all around to the outside, so that beams would not attach to the walls of the temple.[i] 7 Now while the temple[j] was being built, it was built with stones finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple[k] as it was being built. 8 The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple[l] was on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third floor. 9 So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple[m] with rafters and wood planks and with the cedars. 10 He also built the structure against all of the temple[n] five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple[o] with beams of cedar.
11 Then the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, 12 “Regarding this temple[p] that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father. 13 And I will dwell among[q] the Israelites,[r] and I will not forsake my people Israel.”
14 So Solomon built the temple[s] and finished it.
Conclusion and Benediction
21 Now, so that you also may know my circumstances[a], what I am doing, Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things, 22 whom I have sent[b] to you for this very reason, that you may know our circumstances[c], and he may encourage your hearts.
23 Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.[d]
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