Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

132 LORD, remember David with all his affliction.

² Who swore to the LORD, vowed to the Mighty of Jacob,

³ “I will not enter into the tabernacle of my house, nor come upon my pallet (my bed),

⁴ “nor allow my eyes to sleep, nor my eyelids to slumber,

⁵ “until I find a place for the LORD, a habitation for the Mighty of Jacob.”

⁶ Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah and found it in the fields of the forest.

⁷ We will enter into His Tabernacles and worship before His footstool.

⁸ Arise, O LORD, into Your rest, You and the Ark of Your strength.

⁹ Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let Your saints rejoice.

¹⁰ For Your servant David’s sake, do not refuse the face of Your Anointed.

¹¹ The LORD has sworn to David in truth; and He will not shrink from it, saying, “From the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.

¹² “If your sons keep My Covenant, and My testimonies, so that I shall teach them, their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

¹³ For the LORD has chosen Zion and loved to dwell in it, saying,

¹⁴ “This is My rest, forever. Here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

¹⁵ “I will surely bless her provisions and will satisfy her poor with bread

¹⁶ “and will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout for joy.

¹⁷ “There I will make the horn of David bud. I have ordained a Light for My Anointed.

¹⁸ “I will clothe His enemies with shame; but on Him His crown shall flourish.” A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon

¹¹ And when the king had heard the Words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.

¹² Therefore, the king commanded Hilkiah the Priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the chancellor, and Asahiah, the king’s servant, saying,

¹³ “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah concerning the Words of this Book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us because our fathers have not obeyed the Words of this Book, to do according to all that which is written in it for us.”

¹⁴ So Hilkiah the Priest and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asahiah went to Huldah the Prophetess, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem, in the college). And they communed with her.

¹⁵ And she answered them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,

¹⁶ “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will bring misery upon this place, and on its inhabitants—all the Words of the Book which the king of Judah has read—

¹⁷ ‘because they have forsaken Me and have burnt incense to other gods, to anger Me with all the works of their hands. Also, My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.’”’

¹⁸ “But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall you say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Concerning the Words that you have heard:

¹⁹ “because your heart melted, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of the same—that it would be destroyed and accursed—and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have also heard that,” says the LORD,

²⁰ “Behold, therefore, I will gather you to your fathers. And you shall be put in your grave in peace. And your eyes shall not see all the misery which I will bring upon this place.”’” Thus, they brought word back to the king.

²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead and made the firstfruits of those who slept.

²¹ For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead.

²² For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

²³ Yet, each in his own order: the Firstfruits, Christ; afterward, those who are of Christ, at His coming.

²⁴ Then, the end, when He has delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when He has abolished all rule, and all authority and power.

²⁵ For He must reign till He has put all His enemies under His feet.

²⁶ The last enemy that shall be ended, is death.

²⁷ For He has subjected all things under His feet. (And when He says that all things are subjected, it is obvious that He is excepted, Who subjected all things under Himself.)

²⁸ And when all things shall be subjected to Him, then shall the Son also, Himself, be subject to Him, Who subjected all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.