Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

20 The LORD hear you on the day of trouble. The Name of the God of Jacob defend you;

² send you help from the Sanctuary and strengthen you out of Zion.

³ Let Him remember all your offerings and turn your burnt offerings into ashes. Selah.

⁴ Grant you according to your heart and fulfill all your purpose,

⁵ so that we may rejoice in your salvation—and set up the banner in the Name of our God—when the LORD shall perform all your petitions.

⁶ Now I know that the LORD will help His anointed; and will hear him from His Sanctuary, by the mighty help of His right hand.

⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses. But we will remember the Name of the LORD our God.

⁸ They are brought down and fallen. But we are risen and stand upright.

⁹ Save, LORD! Let the king hear us on the day that we call! To him who excels: A Psalm of David.

25 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

² “Speak to the children of Israel, so that they receive an offering for Me. You shall take the offering for Me from every man whose heart gives it freely.

³ “And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold and silver, and copper,

⁴ “and blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen and goat’s hair,

⁵ “and ram’s skins (colored red), and the skins of badgers, and shittim wood,

⁶ “oil for the light, spices for anointing oil and for the perfume of sweet savor,

⁷ “onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.

⁸ “Also they shall make Me a Sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them.

⁹ “Exactly according to all that I show you, shall you make the form of the Tabernacle, and the fashion of all its instruments.

¹⁰ “They shall also make an Ark of shittim wood, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high.

¹¹ “And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold border all around it.

¹² “And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them in its four corners. That is, two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

¹³ “And you shall make poles of shittim wood and cover them with gold.

¹⁴ “Then you shall put the poles in the rings, on the sides of the Ark, and carry the Ark with them.

¹⁵ “The poles shall be in the rings of the Ark. They shall not be taken away from it.

¹⁶ “So, you shall put the Testimony (which I shall give you) in the Ark.

¹⁷ “Also, you shall make a Mercy Seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half broad.

¹⁸ “And you shall make two Cherubims of gold; of work beaten out with a hammer you shall make them, at the two ends of the Mercy Seat.

¹⁹ “And you shall make one Cherub at one end, and the other Cherub at the other end. From one piece you shall make the Cherubims with the Mercy Seat, on its two ends.

²⁰ “And the Cherubims shall stretch their wings on high, covering the Mercy Seat with their wings and their faces toward one another. Toward the Mercy Seat shall the faces of the Cherubims be.

²¹ “And you shall put the Mercy Seat on top of the Ark. And in the Ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.

²² “And there I will declare Myself to you. And from above the Mercy Seat, between the two Cherubims which are upon the Ark of the Testimony, I will tell you all things which I will give you in Commandment to the children of Israel.

2 And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with excellency of words, or of wisdom, showing to you the testimony of God.

² For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

³ And I was among you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴ Neither my word nor my preaching was in the enticing speech of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

⁵ So that your faith would not be in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God.

⁶ Rather, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, which come to nothing,

⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, having been hidden, which God predetermined to our glory before the world,

⁸ and which none of the princes of this world have known. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

⁹ But as it is written, ‘The things which neither eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor have come into man’s heart, are those which God has prepared for those who love Him.’

¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.