Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 125
Israel’s Stability
A song of ascents.
1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion.
It cannot be shaken; it remains forever.(A)
2 The mountains surround Jerusalem
and the Lord surrounds his people,
both now and forever.(B)
3 The scepter of the wicked will not remain
over the land allotted to the righteous,
so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice.(C)
4 Do what is good, Lord, to the good,
to those whose hearts are upright.(D)
5 But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways,
the Lord will banish them with the evildoers.(E)
Peace be with Israel.(F)
16 At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance(A) was written before him for those who feared the Lord and had high regard for his name. 17 “They will be mine,” says the Lord of Armies,(B) “my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.(C) 18 So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
The Day of the Lord
4 “For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Armies, “not leaving them root or branches. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings,(D) and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.[a] 3 You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the Lord of Armies.
A Final Warning
4 “Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb(E) for all Israel. 5 Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah(F) before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(G) 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers.(H) Otherwise, I will come and strike the land[b] with a curse.”
9 As(A) they were coming down the mountain,(B) he ordered them to tell no one what they had seen(C) until the Son of Man(D) had risen(E) from the dead.(F) 10 They kept this word(G) to themselves, questioning what “rising from the dead” meant.
11 Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes(H) say that Elijah must come first?” (I)
12 “Elijah does come first and restores(J) all things,”(K) he replied. “Why then is it written(L) that the Son of Man must suffer(M) many things and be treated with contempt?(N) 13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as it is written(O) about him.”
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