Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
God Sustains His Servant.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
40 I (A)waited [a]patiently for the Lord;
And He inclined to me and (B)heard my cry.
2 He brought me up out of the (C)pit of destruction, out of the [b]miry clay,
And (D)He set my feet upon a rock (E)making my footsteps firm.
3 He put a (F)new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;
Many will (G)see and fear
And will trust in the Lord.
4 How (H)blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,
And (I)has not [c]turned to the proud, nor to those who (J)lapse into falsehood.
5 Many, O Lord my God, are (K)the wonders which You have done,
And Your (L)thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They (M)would be too numerous to count.
6 [d](N)Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have [e]opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is [f]written of me.
8 (O)I delight to do Your will, O my God;
(P)Your Law is within my heart.”
9 I have (Q)proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will (R)not restrain my lips,
O Lord, (S)You know.
10 I have (T)not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have (U)spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.
15 Thus says the Lord [a]God of hosts,
“Come, go to this steward,
To (A)Shebna, who is in charge of the royal household,
16 ‘What right do you have here,
And whom do you have here,
That you have (B)hewn a tomb for yourself here,
You who hew a tomb on the height,
You who carve a resting place for [b]yourself in the rock?
17 ‘Behold, the Lord is about to hurl you headlong, O man.
And He is about to grasp you firmly
18 And roll you tightly like a ball,
To be (C)cast into a vast country;
There you will die
And there your splendid chariots will be,
You shame of your master’s house.’
19 “I will (D)depose you from your office,
And [c]I will pull you down from your station.
20 “Then it will come about in that day,
That I will summon My servant (E)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
21 And I will clothe him with your tunic
And tie your sash securely about him.
I will entrust him with your [d]authority,
And he will become a (F)father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 “Then I will set (G)the key of the (H)house of David on his shoulder,
When he opens no one will shut,
When he shuts no one will (I)open.
23 “I will drive him like a (J)peg in a firm place,
And he will become a (K)throne of glory to his father’s house.
24 So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, offspring and [e]issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars. 25 In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “the (L)peg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even (M)break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the (N)Lord has spoken.”
Perversion of the Gospel
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting (A)Him who called you [a]by the grace of Christ, for a (B)different gospel; 7 which is really not another; only there are some who are (C)disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or (D)an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel [b]contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be [c](E)accursed! 9 As we (F)have said before, so I say again now, (G)if any man is preaching to you a gospel [d]contrary to what you received, he is to be [e](H)accursed!
10 For am I now (I)seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a (J)bond-servant of Christ.
Paul Defends His Ministry
11 For (K)I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is (L)not according to man. 12 For (M)I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a (N)revelation of Jesus Christ.
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