Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
You Have Turned My Mourning into Dancing
A Psalm. A Song at the Dedication of the House. Of David.
30 I will (A)exalt You, O Yahweh, for You have (B)lifted me up,
And have not let my (C)enemies be glad over me.
2 O Yahweh my God,
I (D)cried to You for help, and You (E)healed me.
3 O Yahweh, You have (F)brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, [a]that I would not (G)go down to the pit.
4 (H)Sing praise to Yahweh, you (I)His holy ones,
And (J)give thanks for the (K)remembrance of His holy name.
5 For (L)His anger is but for a moment,
His (M)favor is for a lifetime;
Weeping may (N)last for the night,
But a shout of joy comes in the morning.
6 Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I will (O)never be shaken.”
7 O Yahweh, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong;
You (P)hid Your face, I was dismayed.
8 To You, O Yahweh, I called,
And to the Lord I made supplication:
9 “What profit is there in my blood, if I (Q)go down to the pit?
Will the (R)dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?
10 “(S)Hear, O Yahweh, and be gracious to me;
O Yahweh, be my (T)helper.”
11 You have turned for me (U)my mourning into dancing;
You have (V)loosed my sackcloth and girded me with (W)gladness,
12 That my [b](X)glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Yahweh my God, I will (Y)give thanks to You forever.
Ayin
16 For these things I (A)am weeping;
[a]My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a (B)comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”
Pe
17 Zion (C)stretches out her hands;
There is no one to comfort her;
Yahweh has (D)commanded concerning Jacob
That the ones round about him should be his adversaries;
(E)Jerusalem has become an impure thing among them.
Tsadhe
18 “Yahweh is (F)righteous;
For I have (G)rebelled against His [b]command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And (H)behold my [c]pain;
(I)My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.
Qoph
19 I (J)called to my lovers, but they deceived me;
My (K)priests and my elders breathed their last in the city
While they sought food for themselves in order to (L)restore their souls.
Resh
20 See, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;
My [d](M)inmost being is greatly disturbed;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very (N)rebellious.
In the street the sword bereaves;
In the house it is like death.
Shin
21 They have heard that I (O)am sighing;
There is no one to comfort me;
All my enemies have heard of the [e]evil done to me;
They (P)rejoice that You have done it.
You have brought the day which You have proclaimed,
So that they will become (Q)like me.
Tav
22 Let all their evil come before You;
And (R)deal severely with them as You have dealt severely with me
For all my transgressions;
For my groans are great and my heart is faint.”
Godly Sorrow Produces Repentance
2 (A)Make room for us in your hearts. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one. 3 I do not speak to condemn you, for I have said (B)before that you are (C)in our hearts to die together and to live together. 4 Great is my (D)boldness toward you; great is my (E)boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with (F)comfort; I am overflowing with (G)joy in all our affliction.
5 For even when we came into (H)Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were (I)afflicted on every side—(J)conflicts without, fears within. 6 But (K)God, who comforts the humbled, (L)comforted us by the coming of (M)Titus; 7 and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more. 8 For though I (N)caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while— 9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance. For you were made to have [a]godly sorrow, so that you might not suffer loss in anything [b]through us. 10 For [c]godly sorrow produces a (O)repentance [d]without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world brings about death. 11 For behold what earnestness this very thing—this [e]godly sorrow—has brought about in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what (P)longing, what zeal, what (Q)avenging of wrong! In everything you (R)demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. 12 So although (S)I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of (T)the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God. 13 For this reason we have been (U)comforted.
And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of (V)Titus, because his (W)spirit has been refreshed by you all. 14 For if in anything I have (X)boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame, but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before (Y)Titus proved to be the truth. 15 And his [f]affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the (Z)obedience of you all, how you received him with (AA)fear and trembling. 16 I rejoice that in everything (AB)I am encouraged about you.
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