Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ ¶ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

² Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³ God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

⁴ For, behold, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

⁵ They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled and hasted away.

⁶ Fear took hold upon them there and pain as of a woman in travail.

⁷ Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

⁸ ¶ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of the hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish it for ever. Selah.

⁹ We have conceived according to thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰ According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth; thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹ Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad because of thy judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion and go round about her; tell the towers thereof.

¹³ Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces that ye may tell it to the generation following.

¹⁴ For this God is our God eternally and for ever; he will be our guide even unto death.

¹⁸ ¶ Then the LORD will be jealous for his earth and forgive his people.

¹⁹ Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you bread and new wine and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles:

²⁰ But I will remove far off from you he of the north wind and will drive him into a land barren and desolate; his face shall be toward the east sea, and his end unto the western sea, and he shall exhale his foul odour, and he shall decompose, because he has lifted himself up.

²¹ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD has done great things.

²² Be not afraid, ye animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness shall become green again, for the trees shall bear their fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall give their fruits.

²³ Ye also, sons of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God for he has given you the former rain according to righteousness, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain as in the beginning.

²⁴ And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

²⁵ And I will restore to you the years that the caterpillar has eaten, the locust, and the cankerworm, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

²⁶ And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God that has dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never again be ashamed.

²⁷ And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is none other; and my people shall never be ashamed.

²⁸ ¶ And it shall come to pass after this that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

²⁹ and even upon the slaves and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

2 ¶ And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with puffed up speech or wisdom to declare unto you the testimony of God.

² For I judged not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

³ And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁵ that your faith should not be founded in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶ ¶ For we speak perfect wisdom of God, and not the wisdom of this age nor of the princes of this age, that come to nought,

⁷ but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,

⁸ which none of the princes of this age knew (for had they known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory).

⁹ But as it is written, That which eye has not seen nor ear heard neither has entered into the heart of man is that which God has prepared for those that love him.

¹⁰ But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

¹¹ For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God.