Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
The One Who Rescues Me
For the choir director. Of David. A Psalm.
40 I (A)hoped [a]earnestly for Yahweh;
And He inclined to me and (B)heard my cry for help.
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 high rock, (E)He established my steps.
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 Yahweh.
4 How (H)blessed is the man who has made Yahweh his trust,
And (I)has not [c]turned to the proud, nor to those who (J)stray into falsehood.
5 Many, O Yahweh my God, are (K)the wondrous deeds You have done,
And Your (L)thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
I would declare and speak of them,
But they (M)are too numerous to recount.
6 [d](N)Sacrifice and meal offering [e]You have not desired;
My ears You have [f]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 [g]written of me.
8 (O)I desire to do Your will, O my God;
(P)Your law is within my inner being.”
9 I (Q)proclaim good news of righteousness in the great assembly;
Behold, I do (R)not restrain my lips,
O Yahweh, (S)You know.
10 I do (T)not conceal Your righteousness within my heart;
I (U)speak of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I do not hide Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.
15 Thus says Lord Yahweh 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 dwelling place for [a]yourself in the cliff?
17 Behold, Yahweh is about to hurl you headlong, O man.
And He is about to grasp you firmly
18 And He will surely roll you tightly like a ball,
To be (C)cast into a vast country;
There you will die,
And there your glorious chariots will be,
You disgrace of your master’s house.’
19 I will (D)push you out of your office,
And [b]I will pull you down from your station.
20 Then it will be 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 give your [c]authority into his hand,
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 [d]issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars. 25 In that day,” declares Yahweh 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 (N)Yahweh has spoken.”
Distorting the Gospel
6 I marvel 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 proclaim to you a gospel [b]contrary to the gospel we have proclaimed to you, let him be [c](E)accursed! 9 As we (F)have said before, so I say again now, (G)if any man is proclaiming to you a gospel [d]contrary to what you received, let him 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)slave of Christ.
Paul Called by God
11 For (K)I make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which I am proclaiming as good news 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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