Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
40 I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.
2 Also, He brought me out of the horrible pit—out of the miry clay—and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.
3 And He has put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not regard the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 You have made many, O LORD my God, Your wonderful works; so that no one can count to You, in order, Your thoughts toward us. I would declare and speak of them, but they are more than I am able to express.
6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
7 Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.
8 “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”
9 I have declared righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, You know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your truth and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great Congregation.
11 Do not withdraw Your tender mercy from me, O LORD. Let Your mercy and Your truth always preserve me.
15 Thus says the LORD God of Hosts: “Go! Get to that steward, to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
16 “What do you have here and whom do you have here that you should carve yourself out a sepulcher here, as he who carves out his sepulcher in a high place, or that chisels a habitation for himself in a rock?
17 “Behold, the LORD will carry you away. The mighty man will surely cover you.
18 “He will surely roll and turn you, like a ball in a large country. There you shall die. And there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord’s house.
19 “So I will drive you from your station. And out of your dwelling will he destroy you.
20 “And on that day, I will call My servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.
21 “And with your garments I will clothe him. And with your belt I will strengthen him. Your power I will also commit into his hand. And he shall be a father of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the House of Judah.
22 “And I will lay the key of the House of David upon his shoulder. So he shall open, and no man shall shut. And he shall shut, and no man shall open.
23 “And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place. And he shall be the throne of glory for his father’s House.
24 “And they shall hang all the glory of his father’s House upon him, of the nephews and posterity, and all small vessels, from the vessels of the cups to all the instruments of music.
25 “On that day,” says the LORD of Hosts, “shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place depart and shall be broken and fall. And the burden that was upon it shall be cut off. For the LORD has spoken it.”
6 I marvel that you are so soon lured away to another gospel from Him who had called you in the grace of Christ,
7 which is not another gospel. Yet, there are some who are agitating you, and intend to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we, or an angel from Heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that which we have preached, let him be accursed.
9 As we have said before, so say I now again: If anyone preaches to you any other gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.
10 For as of now, do I preach man’s doctrine, or God’s? Or, do I go about to please man? For if I were still pleasing man, I would not be the servant of Christ.
11 Now let it be known, brothers, that the Gospel which was preached by me, is not according to man.
12 Neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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