Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

37 A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.

² Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.

³ For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

⁴ There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.

⁵ For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

⁶ My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.

⁷ I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

⁸ For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health in my flesh.

⁹ I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.

18 In the third year of Osee the son of Ela king of Israel, reigned Ezechias the son of Achaz king of Juda.

² He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi the daughter of Zacharias.

³ And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

⁴ He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.

⁵ He trusted in the Lord the God of Israel: so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were before him:

⁶ And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

⁷ Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which he went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the king of the Assyrians, and served him not.

⁸ He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

²⁸ Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.

²⁹ Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of my hand.

³⁰ Neither let him make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

³¹ Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me: and every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard, and of his own fig tree: and you shall drink water of your own cisterns,

³² Till I come, and take you away to a land, like to your own land, a fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives, and oil and honey, and you shall live, and not die. Hearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The Lord will deliver us.

³³ Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

³⁴ Where is the god of Emath, and of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

³⁵ Who are they among all the gods of the nations, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer him.

⁸ And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

⁹ I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

¹⁰ Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful until death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹¹ He, that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: He that shall overcome, shall not be hurt by the second death.