Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
32 Blessed is he whose wickedness is forgiven; whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I held my tongue (my bones being consumed when I roared all day,
4 for Your hand is heavy upon me day and night) and my moisture turned into the drought of Summer (Selah),
5 I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I thought, “I will confess to the LORD my wickedness against myself.” And You forgave the punishment of my sin. Selah.
6 Therefore, everyone who is godly shall make his prayer to You in a time when You may be found. Surely, in the flood of great waters they shall not come near him.
7 You are my Secret Place. You preserve me from trouble. You surround me with joyful deliverance. Selah.
8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you shall go. I will guide you with My eye.
9 “Be not like a horse, or like a mule, which do not understand; whose mouths you bind with bit and bridle, lest they come near you.”
10 Many sorrows shall come to the wicked. But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.
11 Be glad, you righteous, and rejoice in the LORD; and be joyful, all you who are upright in heart!
15 For thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken to me: ‘Take this cup of wine of indignation from My Hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
16 ‘And they shall drink and be moved and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.’”
17 Then I took the cup from the LORD’s Hand, and made all people drink to whom the LORD had sent me:
18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them desolate, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day,
19 Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,
20 and all sorts of people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites,
22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the Isles who are beyond the sea,
23 and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who dwell in the uttermost corners,
24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of Arabia who dwell in the desert,
25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of [u]Elam, and all the kings of the Medes.
26 And all the kings of the North, far from and near to one another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the Earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink and be drunken, and spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”
28 ‘But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand, to drink, then tell them, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘You shall certainly drink.
29 ‘For lo, I begin to plague the city where My Name is called upon. And should you go free? You shall not go acquitted. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the Earth,’ says the LORD of Hosts.”
44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He had appointed; speaking to Moses so that he would make it according to the pattern which he had seen,
45 “which our fathers also received and (with Joshua) brought into the land possessed by the Gentiles, whom God drove out before our fathers until the days of David,
46 “who found favor before God, and desired that he might find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 “But Solomon built him a house.
48 “However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands. As says the Prophet,
49 ‘Heaven is My throne. And Earth is My footstool. What house will you build for Me?’, says the Lord. ‘Or, what place is it that I should rest in?
50 ‘Has not My hand made all these things?’
51 “You stiff-necked! With uncircumcised hearts and ears! You have always resisted the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you!
52 “Which of the Prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold of the coming of the Just One, Of Whom you are now the betrayers and murderers.
53 “Who have received the law by the ordinance of angels and have not kept it.”
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