Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
90 1 Moses in his prayer setteth before us the eternal favor of God toward his, 3 who are neither admonished by the brevity of their life, 7 nor by his plagues to be thankful, 12 therefore Moses prayeth God to turn their hearts, and continue his mercies toward them and their posterity forever.
A prayer of Moses, [a]the man of God.
1 Lord, thou hast been our [b]habitation from generation to generation.
2 Before the [c]mountains were made, and before thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art our God.
3 Thou [d]turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Return ye sons of Adam.
4 [e]For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou hast [f]overflowed them, they are as a sleep, in the morning he groweth like the grass:
6 In the morning it flourisheth and groweth, but in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
13 Return (O Lord, [a]how long?) and be [b]pacified toward thy servants.
14 Fill us with thy mercy in the morning: so shall we rejoice and be glad all our days?
15 Comfort us according to the days that thou hast afflicted us, and according to the years that we have seen evil.
16 [c]Let thy work be seen toward thy servants, and thy glory upon their [d]children.
17 And let the [e]beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and [f]direct thou the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands.
14 ¶ Then the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days are come, that thou must die: Call Joshua, and stand ye in the Tabernacle of the Congregation that I may give him a [a]charge. So Moses and Joshua went, and stood in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
15 And the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle in the pillar of a [b]cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the Tabernacle.
16 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of a strange land (whither they go to dwell therein) and will forsake me: and break my covenant which I have made with them.
17 Wherefore my wrath will wax hot against them at that day, and I will forsake them, and will [c]hide my face from them: then they shall be consumed, and many adversities and tribulations shall come upon them: so then they will say, Are not these troubles come upon me, because God is not with me?
18 But I will surely hide my face in that day, because of all the evil which they shall commit, in that they are turned unto other gods.
19 Now therefore write ye this [d]song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be my witness against the children of Israel.
20 For I will bring them into the land (which I sware unto their fathers) that floweth with milk and honey: and they shall eat and fill themselves, and wax fat: [e]then shall they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and contemn me, and break my covenant.
21 And then when many adversities and tribulations shall come upon them, this song shall [f]answer them to their faces as a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their posterity: for I know their imagination, which they go about even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
22 ¶ Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
5 [a]For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest continue to redress the things that remain, and shouldest ordain Elders in every city as I ap-pointed thee.
6 (A)If any be unreproveable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are [b]disobedient.
7 [c]For a Bishop must be unreproveable, as God’s [d]steward, not [e]froward, not angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre,
8 But harberous, one that loveth goodness, [f]wise, righteous, holy, temperate,
9 [g]Holding fast that faithful word according to doctrine, [h]that he also may be able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and convince them that say against it.
10 [i]For there are many disobedient and vain talkers and deceivers of minds, chiefly they of the [j]Circumcision,
11 Whose mouths must be stopped, which subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
12 [k]One of themselves, even one of their own Prophets said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
13 This witness is true: wherefore convince them [l]sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
14 And not taking heed to (B)Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn away from the truth.
15 [m]Unto the pure (C)are all things pure, but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their [n]minds and consciences are defiled.
16 They profess that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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