{"content":[{"text":"EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST \n PROPER 11 \n July 18, 2021 \n Year B, Revised Common Lectionary","bbox":{"left":0.100588,"top":0.04548,"width":0.334319,"height":0.07400399999999999}},{"text":"live in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and \n evildoers shall afflict them no more, as formerly, from the \n time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I \n will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the \n LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a \n house. When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with \n your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, who \n shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his \n kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will \n establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a \n father to him, and he shall be a son to me.","bbox":{"left":0.512435,"top":0.045406,"width":0.429036,"height":0.17325400000000002}},{"text":"Psalm 89:20-37 \n � I have found my servant David; with my holy oil I \n have anointed him; \n � my hand shall always remain with him; my arm \n also shall strengthen him. \n � The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall \n not humble him. \n � I will crush his foes before him and strike down \n those who hate him. \n � My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with \n him; and in my name his horn shall be exalted. \n � I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand \n on the rivers. \n � He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, \n and the Rock of my salvation!' \n � I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the \n kings of the earth. \n � Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and \n my covenant with him will stand firm. \n � I will establish his line forever, and his throne as \n long as the heavens endure. \n � If his children forsake my law and do not walk \n according to my ordinances, \n � if they violate my statutes and do not keep my \n commandments, \n � then I will punish their transgression with the rod \n and their iniquity with scourges; \n � but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, \n or be false to my faithfulness. \n � I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word \n that went forth from my lips. \n � Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will \n not lie to David. \n � His line shall continue forever, and his throne \n endure before me like the sun. \n � It shall be established forever like the moon, an \n enduring witness in the skies.\" Selah","bbox":{"left":0.512435,"top":0.234371,"width":0.429161,"height":0.5829000000000001}},{"text":"Christ Preaching (The Hundred Guilder Print), detail, \n Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, \n ca. 1646-1650.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.50307,"width":0.41831,"height":0.04732000000000003}},{"text":"2 Samuel 7:1-14a Now when the king was settled in \n his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his \n enemies around him, the king said to the prophet \n Nathan, \"See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but \n the ark of God stays in a tent.\" Nathan said to the king, \n \"Go, do all that you have in mind; for the LORD is with \n you.\" But that same night the word of the LORD came to \n Nathan: Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the \n LORD: Are you the one to build me a house to live in? I \n have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the \n people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been \n moving about in a tent and a tabernacle. Wherever I \n have moved about among all the people of Israel, did I \n ever speak a word with any of the tribal leaders of Israel, \n whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, \n saying, \"Why have you not built me a house of cedar?\" \n Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: \n Thus says the LORD of hosts: I took you from the \n pasture, from following the sheep to be prince over my \n people Israel; and I have been with you wherever you \n went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; \n and I will make for you a great name, like the name of \n the great ones of the earth. And I will appoint a place for \n my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.566101,"width":0.418305,"height":0.3779880000000001}},{"text":"Ephesians 2:11-22 So then, remember that at one time \n you Gentiles by birth, called \"the uncircumcision\" by those \n who are called \"the circumcision\" --a physical \n circumcision made in the flesh by human hands-- \n remember that you were at that time without Christ, being \n aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to \n the covenants of promise, having no hope and without","bbox":{"left":0.512435,"top":0.83283,"width":0.429299,"height":0.11035000000000006}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.058824,"top":0.133649,"width":0.418137,"height":0.354924}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.058824,"top":0.133649,"width":0.418137,"height":0.354924}]}