Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
You Forgave the Iniquity of My Sin
Of David. A [a]Maskil.
32 (A)How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!
2 How blessed is the man whose iniquity Yahweh (B)will not take into account,
And in whose spirit there is (C)no deceit!
3 When (D)I kept silent about my sin, (E)my [b]bones wasted away
Through my [c](F)groaning all day long.
4 For day and night (G)Your hand was heavy upon me;
My [d](H)vitality was drained away as with the heat of summer. [e]Selah.
5 I (I)acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I (J)did not cover up;
I said, “(K)I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh;”
And You (L)forgave the [f]iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 Therefore, let every holy one pray to You [g](M)at a time when You may be found;
Surely (N)in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.
7 You are (O)my hiding place; You (P)guard me from trouble;
You surround me with [h](Q)songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will (R)give you insight and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you (S)with My eye upon you.
9 Do not be (T)as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose harness are bit and bridle to control them,
Otherwise they will not come near you.
10 Many are the (U)sorrows of the wicked,
But (V)he who trusts in Yahweh, lovingkindness shall surround him.
11 Be (W)glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous ones;
And shout for joy, all you who are (X)upright in heart.
14 (A)On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, so that they [a]feared him, just as they had [b]feared Moses all the days of his life.
15 Then Yahweh said to [c]Joshua, 16 “Command the priests who carry (B)the ark of the testimony that they come up from the Jordan.” 17 So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” 18 So it happened when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were [d]lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went over all its banks as before.
19 Now the people came up from the Jordan on the (C)tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho. 20 [e](D)And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up (E)at Gilgal. 21 Then he said to the sons of [f]Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 then you shall make your children know, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on (F)dry land.’ 23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as Yahweh your God had done to the [g]Red Sea, (G)which He dried up before us until we had crossed, 24 that (H)all the peoples of the earth may know that the (I)hand of Yahweh is strong, so that you may [h](J)fear Yahweh your God [i]forever.”
6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that (A)while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7 for (B)we walk by faith, not by [a]sight— 8 we are of good courage and (C)prefer rather to be absent from the body and (D)to be at home with the Lord. 9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be (E)pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before (F)the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for [b]his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
11 So then, knowing the (G)fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we [c]have been made manifest to God; and I hope that we [d]have been (H)made manifest also in your consciences. 12 We are not (I)again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an (J)opportunity to boast of us, so that you will have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. 13 For if we [e]are (K)out of our mind, it is for God, or if we are of right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ (L)controls us, having concluded this, that (M)one died for all, therefore all died. 15 And He died for all, so that they who live would no longer (N)live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
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