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Pentecost Season · Proper 17 · Year B

Psalm 15

Who May Dwell on Your Holy Hill

August 29, 2027

The Sermon on the Mount, Claude Lorrain
The Sermon on the Mount, Claude Lorrain, c. 1656The Frick Collection
Claude builds an impossible mountain and sets the crowd on its slopes, with the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan laid out below in a single unbroken landscape.O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill? Psalm 15 asks who gets up the mountain, and this is the mountain.Claude LorrainA French painter who spent his life in Rome inventing the ideal landscape, and whose harbours at sunrise set the standard for two hundred years.The Frick CollectionHenry Clay Frick's house on Fifth Avenue, left with its pictures in place, so the paintings hang as furnishings rather than as a survey.The Frick Collection
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelMark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
EpistleJas. 1:17-27Jas 1:17-27
Old TestamentSong 2:8-13Sg 2:8-13Alt. OTDeut. 4:1-2, 6-9Dt 4:1-2, 6-9
PsalterPs. 45:1-2, 6-9Ps 45:1-2, 6-9Alt. PsalmPs. 15Ps 15

Overview & Insights

"O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill?" (Psalm 15:1)

A psalm asking who may dwell with God, answered by a portrait of the person who walks blamelessly, speaks truth, does no evil to a neighbor, and keeps an oath even at cost.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Psalm 15Working Preacher: Commentary on Ps 15 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on who may dwell with God for the semicontinuous track.

Enduring Word: Psalm 15Enduring Word: Ps 15 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the psalm.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Psalm 15:1BibleHub: Commentaries on Ps 15:1 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries on who may dwell on the holy hill.

Background & Word Study

Sefaria: Psalms 15 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Ps 15 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and Jewish commentary on the psalm.

BibleHub: Psalm 15 InterlinearBibleHub: Ps 15 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the psalm.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Psalm 15Catena: Ps 15 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Psalm 15.

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