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.

¹⁴ ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

¹⁵ Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel together, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD; unto us is this land given in possession.

¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they shall come there, and they shall remove all her contaminations and all her abominations from her.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh:

²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

²¹ But as for those whose heart walks after the desire of their contaminations and of their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, said the Lord GOD.

²² ¶ Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels after them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

²³ And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

²⁴ Afterwards the Spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into the land of the Chaldeans to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²⁵ Then I spoke unto the captives all the words of the LORD that he had showed me.

¹² Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that God has given us.

¹³ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but with doctrine of the Holy Spirit, jointly fitting spiritual things by spiritual means.

¹⁴ But the natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵ But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he is discerned by no one.

¹⁶ For who has known the understanding of the Lord? Who has instructed him? But we have the understanding of Christ.