Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

128 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in His ways.

² When you eat the labors of your hands, you shall be blessed; and it shall be well with you.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

⁴ Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

⁵ The LORD out of Zion shall bless you; and you shall see the wealth of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ Indeed, you shall see your children’s children. Peace upon Israel. A song of degrees

⁴ Afterward, they departed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to surround the land of Edom. And the soul of the people became very discouraged along the way.

⁵ And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have You brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.”

⁶ Therefore the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, which bit the people, so that many of the people of Israel died.

⁷ Therefore the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned. For we have spoken against the LORD and against You. Pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us.” And Moses prayed for the people.

⁸ And the LORD said to Moses, “Make yourself a fiery serpent; and set it up for a sign, so that as many as are bitten may look upon it and live.”

⁹ So Moses made a serpent of brass and set it up for a sign. And when a serpent had bitten a man, then he looked to the serpent of brass and lived.

3 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

² Who was faithful to Him who has appointed Him (just as Moses was) in all His house.

³ For this Man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as the One who has built the house has more honor than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by someone. But the One Who has built all things is God.

⁵ Now Moses was truly faithful in all His house as a servant, for a witness of the things yet to be spoken.

⁶ But, Christ is as the Son over His own house, Whose house we are if we hold onto the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope to the end.