Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears Yahweh
A Song of Ascents.
128 (A)How blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
Who (B)walks in His ways.
2 When you shall (C)eat of the [a](D)fruit of the labor of your hands,
How blessed will you be and (E)how well will it be for you.
3 Your wife shall be like a (F)fruitful vine
In the innermost parts of your house,
Your children like (G)olive plants
All around your table.
4 Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears Yahweh.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “For behold, I am creating a (A)new heavens and a new earth;
And the (B)former things will not be remembered or come upon the heart.
18 But be (C)joyful and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing
And her people for joy.
19 I will also (D)rejoice in Jerusalem and be joyful in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice of (E)weeping and the voice of crying.
20 No longer will there be [a]in it an infant who lives but a few days,
Or an old man who does (F)not fulfill his days;
For the youth will die at the age of one hundred,
And the [b](G)one who does not reach the age of one hundred
Will be thought accursed.
21 They will (H)build houses and inhabit them;
They will also (I)plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They will not build and (J)another inhabit;
They will not plant and another eat;
For (K)as the [c]lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will (L)wear out the work of their hands.
23 They will (M)not labor in vain,
Or bear children for terror;
For they are the (N)seed of those blessed by Yahweh,
And their offspring with them.
24 And it will be that before they call, I will (O)answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear. 25 The (P)wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the (Q)lion will eat straw like the ox; and (R)dust will be the serpent’s food. They will (S)do no evil nor act corruptly in all My (T)holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “(A)Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.
8 (B)Blessed is the man whose sin the [a]Lord will not (C)take into account.”
9 Therefore, is this blessing on [b](D)the circumcised, or on [c]the uncircumcised also? For (E)we say, “(F)Faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.” 10 How then was it counted? While he was [d]circumcised, or [e]uncircumcised? Not while [f]circumcised, but while [g]uncircumcised; 11 and he (G)received the sign of circumcision, (H)a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [h]he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be (I)the father of (J)all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be counted to them, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which [i]he had while uncircumcised.
13 For (K)the promise to Abraham or to his seed (L)that he would be heir of the world was not [j]through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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