4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to fTobiah, 5 prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, gwhich were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests. 6 While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the hthirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king 7 and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. 8 And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber. 9 Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.
The Lord Our God Is Holy
1 The Lord yreigns; let the peoples tremble!
He sits zenthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
2 The Lord is great in Zion;
he is exalted aover all the peoples.
3 Let them praise your great and awesome name!
bHoly is he!
4 The King in his might loves justice.1
You have established equity;
you have executed cjustice
and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt the Lord our God;
dworship at his footstool!
Holy is he!
6 eMoses and Aaron were among his priests,
fSamuel also was among those who gcalled upon his name.
hThey called to the Lord, and he answered them.
7 iIn the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them;
they kept his testimonies
and the statute that he gave them.
8 O Lord our God, you answered them;
you were a forgiving God to them,
but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
9 Exalt the Lord our God,
and worship at his holy mountain;
for the Lord our God is holy!
The Transfiguration
1 wAnd after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 And xhe was ytransfigured before them, and his zface shone like the sun, and his clothes became awhite as light. 3 bAnd behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. 4 And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three ctents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 5 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright dcloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, e“This is my beloved Son,1 fwith whom I am well pleased; glisten to him.” 6 When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified. 7 But Jesus came and htouched them, saying, “Rise, and have no fear.” 8 And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.
9 iAnd as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, j“Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”
