Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

128 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in His ways.

² When you eat the labors of your hands, you shall be blessed; and it shall be well with you.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

⁴ Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

⁵ The LORD out of Zion shall bless you; and you shall see the wealth of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ Indeed, you shall see your children’s children. Peace upon Israel. A song of degrees

¹⁷ “For lo, I will create new heavens and a new Earth. And the former shall neither be remembered nor come to mind.

¹⁸ “But be glad and rejoice forever in the things that I shall create. For behold, I will create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, and her people as a joy.

¹⁹ “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in My people. And the voice of weeping shall be heard no more in her, nor the voice of crying.

²⁰ “No more shall there be there a child of no years, or an old man who has not filled his days. For he who shall be a hundred years old shall die a young man. But the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

²¹ “And they shall build houses and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

²² “They shall not build, and another inhabit. They shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of the tree are the days of My people. And My Elect shall enjoy the work of their hands in old age.

²³ “They shall neither labor in vain nor bring forth in fear. For they are the seed of the Blessed of the LORD, and their buds with them.

²⁴ “Yea, before they call, I will answer. And while they speak, I will hear.

²⁵ “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And dust shall be food to the serpent. They shall neither hurt nor destroy anymore, in all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

⁶ even as David declares the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works, saying,

⁷ “Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

⁸ “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin.”

⁹ Did, then, this blessedness come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰ How, then, was it counted - when he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not when he was circumcised, but when he was uncircumcised.

¹¹ Afterward, he received the sign of circumcision, as the seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had when he was uncircumcised. So that he should be the Father of all those who believe (not being circumcised), that righteousness might be counted to them also;

¹² and that he be the Father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but also to those who walk in the steps of the faith our Father Abraham had when he was uncircumcised.

¹³ For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.