Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

130 Out of the deep places have I called to You, O LORD.

² LORD, hear my voice. Let Your ears attend to the voice of my prayers.

³ If You, O LORD, straightly mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?

⁴ But mercy is with You, so that You may be feared.

⁵ I have waited on the LORD. My soul has waited; and I have trusted in His word.

⁶ My soul waits on the LORD more than the morning watch watches for the morning.

⁷ Let Israel wait on the LORD, for with the LORD is mercy and with Him is great redemption.

⁸ And He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon

29 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old and reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

² And he did uprightly in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

³ He opened the Doors of the House of the LORD in the first year, and in the first month of his reign, and repaired them.

⁴ And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the east street,

⁵ and said to them, “Hear me, you Levites! Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the House of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the Sanctuary!

⁶ “For our fathers have trespassed and done evil in the Eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away their faces from the Tabernacle of the LORD and turned their backs.”

⁷ “They have also shut the doors of the porch and quenched the lamps and have neither burnt incense nor offered Burnt Offerings to the God of Israel in the Sanctuary.

⁸ “Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has been on Judah and Jerusalem. And He has made them a scattering, a desolation, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

⁹ “For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword. And our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for the same reason.

¹⁰ “Now I intend to make a Covenant with the LORD God of Israel, so that He may turn away His fierce wrath from us.

¹¹ “Now my sons, do not be deceived. For the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, and to be His ministers, and to burn incense.”

¹² Then the Levites arose. Of the sons of the Kohathites came Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel, the son of Azariah. And of the sons of Merari came Kish, the son of Abdi, and Azariah, the son of Jehallelel. And of the Gershonites came Joah, the son of Zimmah, and Eden, the son of Joah.

¹³ And of the sons of Elizaphan came Shimri and Jeiel. And of the sons of Asaph came Zechariah and Mattaniah.

¹⁴ And of the sons of Heman came Jehiel and Shimei. And of the sons of Jeduthun came Shemaiah and Uzziel.

¹⁵ And they gathered their brethren and sanctified themselves and came according to the commandment of the king, by the Words of the LORD, to cleanse the House of the LORD.

¹⁶ And the priests went into the inner parts of the House of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the Temple of the LORD into the court of the House of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

¹⁷ They began to sanctify it on the first day of the first month. And on the eighth day of the month, they came to the porch of the LORD. So they sanctified the House of the LORD in eight days. And on the sixteenth day of the first month, they finished.

¹⁸ Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the House of the LORD, and the Altar of Burnt Offering, with all its vessels, and the Showbread Table, with all its vessels.

¹⁹ “And have we prepared and sanctified all the vessels which King Ahaz had cast aside when he reigned and transgressed. And behold, they are before the Altar of the LORD.”

3 O, foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth; before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

² This only would I learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith?

³ Are you so foolish, that after you have begun in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?

⁴ Have you suffered so many things in vain, if so be it even in vain?

⁵ He, therefore, who ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he do it through the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?

⁶ Rather, as Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness,

⁷ know you therefore that those who are of faith, are the same children of Abraham.

⁸ For the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached the Gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you shall all the Gentiles be blessed.”

⁹ So then those who are of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham.