Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
נ Nun
105 Your word is a lamp for my feet(A)
and a light on my path.
106 I have solemnly sworn(B)
to keep Your righteous judgments.
107 I am severely afflicted;
Lord, give me life through Your word.(C)
108 Lord, please accept my willing offerings of praise,(D)
and teach me Your judgments.(E)
109 My life is constantly in danger,[a]
yet I do not forget Your instruction.(F)
110 The wicked have set a trap for me,(G)
but I have not wandered from Your precepts.(H)
111 I have Your decrees as a heritage forever;
indeed, they are the joy of my heart.(I)
112 I am resolved to obey Your statutes
to the very end.[b](J)
Josiah Repairs the Temple
3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent the court secretary Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple,(A) saying, 4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest so that he may total up the money brought into the Lord’s temple—the money the doorkeepers have collected from the people.(B) 5 It is to be put into the hands of those doing the work—those who oversee the Lord’s temple. They in turn are to give it to the workmen in the Lord’s temple to repair the damage.(C) 6 They are to give it to the carpenters, builders, and masons to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the temple.(D) 7 But no accounting is to be required from them for the money put into their hands since they work with integrity.”(E)
The Book of the Law Found
8 Hilkiah the high priest told Shaphan the court secretary, “I have found the book of the law(F) in the Lord’s temple,” and he gave the book to Shaphan, who read it.
9 Then Shaphan the court secretary went to the king and reported,[a] “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hand of those doing the work—those who oversee the Lord’s temple.” 10 Then Shaphan the court secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book,” and Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.(G)
11 When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.(H) 12 Then he commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam(I) son of Shaphan, Achbor(J) son of Micaiah, Shaphan the court secretary, and the king’s servant Asaiah: 13 “Go and inquire of the Lord for me, the people, and all Judah about the instruction in this book that has been found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is kindled against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this book in order to do everything written about us.”(K)
Huldah’s Prophecy of Judgment
14 So(L) Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the prophetess(M) Huldah, wife of Shallum son of Tikvah,(N) son of Harhas,[b] keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District.(O) They spoke with her.
15 She said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘Say to the man who sent you to Me: 16 This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, fulfilling all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,(P) 17 because they have abandoned Me and burned incense to other gods in order to provoke Me with all the work of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.(Q) 18 Say this to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord: This is what the Lord God of Israel says: As for the words that you heard,(R) 19 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord(S) when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse,(T) and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard you—this is the Lord’s declaration— 20 therefore, I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace.(U) Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place.’”
Then they reported[c] to the king.
2 God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.(A) Or don’t you know(B) what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?
3 Lord, they have killed Your prophets
and torn down Your altars.
I am the only one left,
and they are trying to take my life!(C)[a]
4 But what was God’s reply to him? I have left 7,000 men for Myself who have not bowed down to Baal.(D)[b] 5 In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.(E) 6 Now if by grace,(F) then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.[c]
7 What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for,(G) but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,(H) 8 as it is written:
God gave them a spirit of insensitivity,[d]
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.(I)[e]
9 And David says:
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