Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 130

Out of the Depths

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A song of the ascents.

Out of the Depths

³⁴ When the Lord heard the tone of your words, he was angry, and he swore an oath: ³⁵ “Not one of these people from this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, ³⁶ except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give the land on which he walked to him and his children, because he has fully followed the Lord.” ³⁷ The Lord was angry with me too because of you. He said, “You also will not enter there. ³⁸ Joshua son of Nun, who is standing before you, will enter there. Strengthen him, because he will lead Israel to possess it. ³⁹ Your toddlers, who you said would become plunder of war, and your children, who today do not yet know good and evil, will enter there. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it. ⁴⁰ But you, turn around and travel into the wilderness toward the Red Sea.”^[a]

We Long for Heaven

5 Now we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal home in heaven, which is not made by human hands. ² In fact, the reason we groan is that we long to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven. ³ If we do indeed put it on,^[a] we will certainly not be found naked. ⁴ To be sure, while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as the down payment.