Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
120 I called to the LORD in my trouble and He heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given to you, false tongue; or what shall be done to you:
4 the sharp arrows of a mighty man and the coals of a juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I remain in Meshech and dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 For too long my soul has dwelt with him who hates peace.
7 I seek peace; and when I speak, they are bent to war. A song of degrees
18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. Also, his mother’s name 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, the wrath of the LORD was certainly against Jerusalem and Judah, until He cast them out of His sight. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
25 And in the ninth year of his reign, the tenth month, tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, came against Jerusalem, and camped against it. And they built a siege wall against it, all around.
2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 And on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe 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 way of the gate between two walls that was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were by the city, all around. And the king went by 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 army was scattered from him.
6 Then they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah, where they gave judgment upon him.
7 And they killed 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, on the seventh day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, chief steward and servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem
9 and burnt the House of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. And he burnt all the great houses with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the chief steward, broke down the walls of Jerusalem, all around.
11 And the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those who had fled and fallen to the king of Babylon with the remnant of the multitude, chief steward Nebuzaradan carried away captive.
12 But the chief steward left of the poor of the land to dress the vines, and to till the land.
13 Also, the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the House of the LORD, and the bases, and the bronze sea that was in the House of the LORD and carried the bronze from them to Babylon.
14 They also took away the pots and the shovels and the instruments of music and the incense dishes and all the vessels of bronze in which they ministered.
15 And the chief steward took away the ash pans and the basins, that were of gold and silver,
16 with the two pillars, one sea and the bases, which Solomon had made for the House of the LORD. The bronze from all these vessels was without weight.
17 The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. And its chapiter was bronze. And the height of the chapiter (with network) was three cubits, with pomegranates upon the chapiters, all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was the same, with the network.
18 And the chief steward took Seraiah, the High Priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the Door.
19 And he took a eunuch out of the city, who had the oversight of the men of war, and five of the men from the city who were in the king’s presence, and Sopher (captain of the army), who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who 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 struck them and killed them at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. So, Judah was carried away captive, out of his own land.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead and made the firstfruits of those who slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 Yet, each in his own order: the Firstfruits, Christ; afterward, those who are of Christ, at His coming.
24 Then, the end, when He has delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when He has abolished all rule, and all authority and power.
25 For He must reign till He has put all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be ended, is death.
27 For He has subjected all things under His feet. (And when He says that all things are subjected, it is obvious that He is excepted, Who subjected all things under Himself.)
28 And when all things shall be subjected to Him, then shall the Son also, Himself, be subject to Him, Who subjected all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.
29 Or else what shall they do who are baptized for dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why then are they baptized for dead?
30 Why are we also in danger every hour?
31 By your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 If, after the habit of man, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead are not raised up? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
33 Do not be deceived. Bad company corrupts good morals.
34 Awake to righteousness, and do not sin. For some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
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