Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Come and See the Works of God
For the choir director. A Song. A Psalm.
66 (A)Make a loud shout to God, all the earth;
2 Sing praise for the (B)glory of His name;
Establish His (C)praise as glorious.
3 Say to God, “How [a](D)fearsome are Your works!
Because of the abundance of Your strength Your enemies will [b](E)cower before You.
4 (F)All the earth will worship You,
And will (G)sing praises to You;
They will sing praises to Your name.” [c]Selah.
5 (H)Come and see the works of God,
Who is (I)fearsome in His deeds toward the sons of men.
6 He (J)turned the sea into dry land;
They passed through (K)the river on foot;
There let us (L)be glad in Him!
7 He (M)rules by His might forever;
His (N)eyes keep watch on the nations;
Let not the rebellious (O)exalt themselves. Selah.
Manasseh Reigns over Judah
21 (A)Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2 (B)And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, (C)according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel. 3 Indeed, (D)he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and (E)he erected altars for Baal and made an [a]Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and (F)worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 (G)And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “(H)In Jerusalem I will put My name.” 5 Indeed, he built altars for (I)all the host of heaven in (J)the two courts of the house of Yahweh. 6 (K)He even made his son pass through the fire, (L)practiced soothsaying and interpreted omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much that was evil in the sight of Yahweh provoking Him to anger. 7 Then (M)he put the graven image of Asherah, which he had made, in the house of which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, “(N)In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. 8 And I (O)will not make the foot of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.” 9 But they did not listen, and Manasseh (P)led them astray in order to do more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel.
Yahweh Brings Calamity on Israel
10 Then Yahweh spoke by the hand of His slaves the prophets, saying, 11 “(Q)Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations—(R)he has done evil more than all the Amorites did who were before him—and (S)has also made Judah sin (T)with his idols, 12 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, (U)both his ears will tingle. 13 (V)And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the level of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish—he wipes it and turns it upside down. 14 And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies; 15 because they have done what is evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”
14 For we know that the Law is (A)spiritual, but I am (B)fleshly, (C)having been sold [a](D)into bondage under sin. 15 For what I am working out, (E)I do not understand; for I am not practicing (F)what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with (G)the Law, that it is good. 17 So now, (H)no longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my (I)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not. 19 For (J)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, (K)I am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then (L)the [b]principle that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God [c]in (M)the inner man, 23 but I see (N)a different law in my members, waging war against the (O)law of my mind and making me a captive [d]to (P)the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from [e](Q)the body of this (R)death? 25 [f](S)Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh (T)the law of sin.
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