Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
98 Sing to the LORD a new song; for He has done marvelous things! His right hand and His holy arm have gotten Him the victory.
2 The LORD declared His salvation. He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.
3 He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the House of Israel. All the ends of the Earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Sing loud to the LORD, all the Earth! Cry out and rejoice; and sing praises!
5 Sing praise to the LORD upon the harp, upon the harp with a singing voice.
6 With shofars and sound of trumpets sing loud before the LORD the King.
7 Let the sea roar and all that therein is, the world and those who dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands! Let the mountains rejoice together
9 before the LORD! For He has come to judge the Earth. With righteousness shall He judge the world, and the people with equity.
10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of the LORD came to the Prophet Haggai, saying,
11 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Ask the priests now concerning the Law, and say,
12 “If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt he touches the bread or the pottage or the wine or oil or any food, shall it be holy?”’” And the priests answered and said, “No.”
13 Then Haggai said, “If a polluted person touches any of these, shall it be unclean?” And the priests answered, and said, “It shall be unclean.”
14 Then Haggai answered, and said, “‘So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the LORD, ‘And so are all the works of their hands. And that which they offer here is unclean.
15 ‘And now, please consider in your minds from this day forward: before a stone was laid upon a stone in the Temple of the LORD,
16 ‘before these things were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress, to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
17 ‘I struck you with blight, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands. Yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the LORD.
18 ‘Please consider in your minds from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s Temple was laid—consider it in your minds:
19 ‘Is the seed still in the barn? As yet, the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not brought forth fruit. From this day I will bless you.’”
16 For we did not follow cunningly-devised fables when we opened to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we saw His majesty with our own eyes.
17 For He received honor and glory from God the Father when there came such a voice to Him from that excellent Glory: “This is my beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased.”
18 And this voice we heard when it came from Heaven, being with Him on the Holy Mount.
19 We also have the enduring Word of the Prophets—to which you do well to pay attention, as to a light that shines in a dark place—until the Day dawns and the Day Star arise in your hearts.
20 So that you first know this: that no Prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the Prophecy did not come by the will of man. But holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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