Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Delight Yourself in Yahweh

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Sennacherib Deceives Hezekiah

⁸ Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against ^(A)Libnah, for he had heard that ^[a]the king had set out from ^(B)Lachish. ⁹ Then he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of ^[b]Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you.” So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying, ¹⁰ “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of ^[c]Judah, ‘Do not ^(C)let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “^(D)Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ¹¹ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction. So will you be delivered? ^12 (E)Did the gods of ^[d]those nations which my fathers brought to ruin deliver them, even ^(F)Gozan and ^(G)Haran and Rezeph and ^(H)the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? ^13 (I)Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’”

Hezekiah’s Prayer

¹⁴ Then ^(J)Hezekiah took the ^[e]letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of Yahweh and ^[f]spread it out before Yahweh. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, ^(K)who is ^[g]enthroned above the cherubim, ^(L)You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ^16 (M)Incline Your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; ^(N)open Your eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, who sent them ^(O)to ^[h]reproach the living God. ¹⁷ Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands ¹⁸ and have put their gods into the fire, ^(P)for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. ¹⁹ But now, O Yahweh our God, I pray, save us from his hand ^(Q)that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O ^(R)Yahweh, are God.”

Isaiah Speaks of Sennacherib’s Fall

²⁰ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, ^(S)I have heard you.’

^35 (A)Now it happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And the ^[a]men arose early in the morning, and behold, all of ^[b]them were dead bodies. ³⁶ So ^(B)Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went away and returned home and lived at ^(C)Nineveh. ³⁷ Now it happened that as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, ^[c](D)Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into ^(E)the land of Ararat. And ^(F)Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

To the Church in Pergamum

¹² “And to the angel of the church in ^(A)Pergamum write:

This is what the One who has ^(B)the sharp two-edged sword says:

¹³ ‘I know where you dwell, where ^(C)Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny ^(D)My faith even in the days of Antipas, My ^(E)witness, My ^(F)faithful one, who was killed among you, ^(G)where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ But ^(H)I have a few things against you, that you have there some who hold the ^(I)teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, ^(J)to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. ¹⁵ So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the ^(K)Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Therefore ^(L)repent. But if not, ^(M)I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with ^(N)the sword of My mouth. ^17 (O)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(P)To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden ^(Q)manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a ^(R)new name written on the stone ^(S)which no one knows but he who receives it.’

To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in ^(T)Thyatira write:

^(U)This is what the Son of God, the One ^(V)who has ^[a]eyes like a flame of fire and His feet are like burnished bronze, says:

¹⁹ ‘^(W)I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your last deeds are greater than ^[b]at first. ²⁰ But ^(X)I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman ^(Y)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and deceives My slaves so that they ^(Z)commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. ^21 (AA)And I gave her time to repent, and she ^(AB)does not wish to repent of her sexual immorality. ²² Behold, I will throw her ^[c]on a bed of sickness, and those who ^(AC)commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of ^[d]her deeds. ²³ And I will kill her children with ^[e]pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who ^(AD)searches the ^[f]minds and hearts; and ^(AE)I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. ²⁴ But I say to you, the rest who are in ^(AF)Thyatira, who do not have this teaching, who have not known the ^(AG)deep things of Satan, as they call them—I ^(AH)place no other burden on you. ²⁵ Nevertheless ^(AI)what you have, hold fast ^(AJ)until I come. ^26 (AK)And he who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds ^(AL)until the end, ^(AM)to him I will give authority over the ^[g]nations; ²⁷ and he shall ^[h](AN)rule them with a rod of iron, ^(AO)as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father; ²⁸ and I will give him ^(AP)the morning star. ^29 (AQ)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’