Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
120 1 The prayer of David being vexed by the false reports of Saul’s flatterers. 5 And therefore he lamenteth his long abode among those infidels, 7 Who were given to all kinds of wickedness and contention.
A song of [a]degrees.
1 I called unto the Lord in my [b]trouble, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What doth thy [c]deceitful tongue bring unto thee? or what doth it avail thee?
4 It is as the [d]sharp arrows of a mighty man, and as the coals of Juniper.
5 Woe is to me that I remain in [e]Meshech, and dwell in the tents of [f]Kedar.
6 My soul hath too long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7 I seek [g]peace, and when I speak thereof, they are bent to war.
18 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
20 Therefore certainly the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem and Judah, until he cast them out of his [a]sight. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
25 1 Jerusalem is besieged of Nebuchadnezzar, and taken. 7 The sons of Zedekiah are slain before his eyes, and after are his own eyes put out. 11 Judah is brought to Babylon. 25 Gedaliah is slain. 27 Jehoiachin is exalted.
1 (A)And in the [b]ninth year of his reign, the [c]tenth month, and tenth day of the month Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and they built [d]forts against it round about it.
2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 And the ninth day of the month the famine was [e]sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
4 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night, by the way of the [f]gate, which is between two walls that was by the king’s garden: now the Chaldeans were by the city round about: and the king went by the way of the wilderness.
5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and took him in the deserts of Jericho, and all his host was scattered from him.
6 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah, where they [g]gave judgment upon him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, and [h]seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan [i]chief steward and servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem,
9 And burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the chief steward, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11 And the rest of the people that were left in the city, and those that were fled and [j]fallen to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan chief steward carry away captive.
12 But the chief steward left of the poor of the land to dress the vines, and to till the land.
13 (B)Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen Sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldeans break, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
14 The pots [k]also and the besoms, and the instruments of music, and the incense dishes, and all the vessels of brass that they ministered in, took they away.
15 And the ash pans, and the basins, and all that was of gold, and that was of silver, took the chief steward away,
16 With the two pillars, one Sea and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17 (C)The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter thereon was brass, and the height of the chapiter was with network three cubits, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and likewise was the second pillar with the network.
18 And the chief steward took Seraiah the chief Priest, and Zephaniah the [l]second Priest, and the three keepers of the door.
19 And out of the city he took an Eunuch that had the oversight of the men of war, and [m]five men of them that were in the King’s presence, which were found in the city, and Sopher captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the city.
20 And Nebuzaradan the chief steward took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
20 [a]But now is Christ risen from the dead, [b]and was made the (A)[c]firstfruits of them that slept.
21 [d]For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be [e]made alive.
23 [f]But every man in his (B)own order: the firstfruits is Christ, afterward, they that are of Christ, at his coming shall rise again.
24 [g]Then shall be the [h]end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he hath put down [i]all rule, and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign (C)till he hath put all his enemies [j]under his feet.
26 The [k]last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death.
27 (D)For he hath put down all things under his feet. (And when he saith that all things are subdued to him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put down all things under him.)
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, [l]then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him, that did subdue all things under him, that [m]God may be all in all.
29 [n]Else what shall they do which are baptized [o]for dead? if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for dead?
30 [p]Why are we also in jeopardy every hour?
31 By your [q]rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 [r]If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus [s]after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead be not raised up? (E)[t]let us [u]eat and drink: for tomorrow we shall die.
33 [v]Be not deceived: evil speakings corrupt good manners.
34 Awake to live righteously, and sin not: for some have not the knowledge of God, I speak this to your shame.
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