Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²¹ Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.

²² Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them, and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come.

²³ shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and see together.

²⁴ Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.

²⁵ I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.

²⁶ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.

²⁷ The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist.

²⁸ And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.

²⁹ Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

2 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard, lest perhaps we should let them slip.

² For if the word, spoken by angels, became steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

³ How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? which having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

⁴ God also bearing them witness by signs, and wonders, and divers miracles, and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

⁵ For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

⁶ But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him: or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁷ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast set him over the works of thy hands:

⁸ Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath subjected all things to him, he left nothing not subject to him. But now we see not as yet all things subject to him.

⁹ But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God, he might taste death for all.