Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

ZAIN

⁴⁹ Remember the Promise made to Your servant, wherein You have caused me to trust.

⁵⁰ It is my comfort in my trouble. Your Promise has quickened me.

⁵¹ The proud deride me exceedingly, yet have I not turned away from Your Law.

⁵² I remembered Your Judgments of old, O LORD, and have been comforted.

⁵³ Burning indignation has come upon me because of the wicked, who forsake Your Law.

⁵⁴ Your Statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

⁵⁵ I have remembered Your Name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept Your Law.

⁵⁶ This is because I kept Your Precepts.

²² “These words the LORD spoke with a great Voice to all your multitude on the Mount—out of the midst of the fire, the cloud and the darkness—and added no more. And He wrote them upon two Tablets of stone and delivered them to me.

²³ “And when you heard the Voice out of the midst of the darkness (for the mountain burned with fire), then you came to me, all the chiefs of your tribes, and your elders,

²⁴ “and you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His Glory and His greatness. And we have heard His Voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God talks with man, and he lives.

²⁵ ‘Now, therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us if we hear the Voice of the LORD our God anymore. We shall die.

²⁶ ‘For what flesh was there ever that heard the Voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have, and lived?

²⁷ ‘You go near and hear all that the LORD our God says and declare to us all that the LORD our God says to you. And we will hear it and do it.’

²⁸ “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.

²⁹ ‘Oh that there were such a heart in them to fear Me, and to keep all My Commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever.

³⁰ ‘Go. Say to them, “Return into your tents.”

³¹ ‘But you stand here with Me. And I will tell you all the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.

³² ‘Be careful, therefore, to do as the LORD your God has Commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

³³ ‘Walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.’”

6 “These, now, are the Commandments, Ordinances, and Laws, which the LORD your God Commanded to teach, so that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess,

² “so that you might fear the LORD your God and keep all His Ordinances and his Commandments which I command you—you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life—so that your days may be prolonged.

³ “Hear, therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may go well with you, and that you may increase mightily in the land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

¹⁸ And all things are of God, Who has reconciled us unto Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

¹⁹ For God was in Christ, and reconciled the world to Himself, not imputing their sins unto them; and has committed the Word of reconciliation to us.

²⁰ Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God is exhorting you through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God!

²¹ For He has made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we should be made the righteousness of God in Him.