Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees.

130 Out of the depths do I call upon thee, Jehovah.

² Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

³ If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?

⁴ But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

⁵ I wait for Jehovah; my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

⁶ My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than the watchers [wait] for the morning, [more than] the watchers for the morning.

⁷ Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption;

⁸ And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

⁹ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?

¹⁰ For [it is] precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. …

¹¹ For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he speak to this people;

¹² to whom he said, This is the rest: cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.

¹³ And the word of Jehovah was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little: that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

⁷ But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

⁸ but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;

⁹ hospitable one to another, without murmuring;

¹⁰ each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of [the] various grace of God.

¹¹ If any one speak—as oracles of God; if any one minister—as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

¹² Beloved, take not [as] strange the fire [of persecution] which has taken place amongst you for [your] trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;

¹³ but as ye have share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that in the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exultation.

¹⁴ If ye are reproached in [the] name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; for the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.]

¹⁵ Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;

¹⁶ but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name.

¹⁷ For the time of having the judgment begin from the house of God [is come]; but if first from us, what [shall be] the end of those who obey not the glad tidings of God?

¹⁸ And if the righteous is difficultly saved, where shall the impious and [the] sinner appear?

¹⁹ Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.