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

30 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the House of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the LORD God of Israel.

² And the king and his princes and all the Congregation had taken counsel in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

³ For they could not keep it at the present time, because there were not enough sanctified priests, nor were the people gathered to Jerusalem.

⁴ And the thing pleased the king and all the Congregation.

⁵ And they decreed to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem. For they had not done it as it was written for a long time.

⁶ So, the posts went with letters by the commission of the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and with the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; and He will return to the remnant of you who has escaped out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

⁷ “And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers. Therefore, as you see, He made them desolate.

⁸ “Do not be stiff-necked now, as your fathers were, but give the hand to the LORD and come into His Sanctuary which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God. And the fierceness of His wrath shall turn away from you.

⁹ “For if you return to the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find mercy before those who led them away captive. And they shall return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away His Face from you, if you convert to Him.”

¹⁰ So, the posts went from city to city throughout the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the way to Zebulun. But they ridiculed and mocked them.

¹¹ Nevertheless, some from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun submitted themselves and came to Jerusalem.

¹² And the hand of God was in Judah, so that He gave them one heart to do the commandment of the king, and of the rulers, according to the Word of the LORD.

¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the Law, are under the curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.”

¹¹ And it is evident that no one is justified by the Law, in the sight of God. For the just shall live by faith.

¹² And the Law is not of faith: but the one who shall do those things, shall live in them.

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”).

¹⁴ That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus. That we might receive the promise of the Spirit, through faith.