Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say of the LORD, He is my hope and my fortress: my God; in him will I secure myself.

³ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the mortal pestilence.

⁴ He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings thou shalt be secure: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day,

⁶ nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.

¹⁴ Because he has set his will upon me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high because he has known my name.

¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and glorify him.

¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him and show him my saving health.

²³ Am I a God of the near only, said the LORD, and not a God of the far?

²⁴ Can any hide himself in hiding places that I shall not see him? said the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? said the LORD.

²⁵ I have heard what those prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

²⁶ How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies and that prophesy the deceit of their own heart?

²⁷ Do they not think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which each one tells his neighbour, so much that their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal?

²⁸ The prophet with whom the dream came, let him tell the dream; and he with whom my word came, let him speak my true word. What is the chaff to the wheat? said the LORD.

²⁹ Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

³⁰ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words each one from his neighbour.

³¹ Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that sweeten their tongues and say, He said.

³² Behold, I am against those that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and did tell them, and caused my people to err by their lies, and by their flattery; yet I did not send them, nor command them; and they did not profit this people at all, said the LORD.

2 ¶ And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

² in which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the will of the prince of the power of this air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience,

³ among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as all the others.

⁴ ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us,

⁵ even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)

⁶ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

⁷ That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared that we should walk in them.