Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁶⁹ Let my cry come near before Thee, Hashem; give me understanding according to Thy Davar.

¹⁷⁰ Let my techinnah come before Thee; deliver me according to Thy word.

¹⁷¹ My lips shall utter tehillah, when Thou hast taught me Thy chukkot.

¹⁷² My leshon shall speak of Thy word; for all Thy mitzvot are tzedek.

¹⁷³ Let Thine Yad help me; for I have chosen Thy pikkudim.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for Thy Yeshuah (salvation), Hashem; and Thy torah is my delight.

¹⁷⁵ Let my nefesh live, and it shall praise Thee; and let Thy mishpatim sustain me.

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a seh oved (lost sheep); seek Thy eved; for I do not forget Thy mitzvot.

¹¹ Now there dwelt a navi zaken (old prophet) in Beit-El; and his banim came and told him kol hama’aseh that the Ish HaElohim had done that day in Beit-El: the devarim which he had spoken unto HaMelech, them they told also to their av.

¹² And their av said unto them, What derech went he? For his banim had seen on what derech the Ish HaElohim, who came from Yehudah, went.

¹³ And he said unto his banim, Saddle me the chamor. So they saddled him the chamor; and he rode thereon,

¹⁴ And went after the Ish HaElohim, found him sitting under the elah (the oak tree); and he said unto him, Art thou the Ish HaElohim that camest from Yehudah? And he said, I am.

¹⁵ Then he said unto him, Come with me home, and eat lechem.

¹⁶ And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat lechem nor drink mayim with thee in this makom;

¹⁷ For it was told to me by the Devar Hashem, Thou shalt eat no lechem nor drink mayim there, nor turn again to go by the derech on which thou camest.

¹⁸ He said unto him, I am a navi also as thou art; and a malach spoke unto me by the Devar Hashem, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine bais, that he may eat lechem and drink mayim. But he lied unto him.

¹⁹ So he went back with him, did eat lechem in his bais and drank mayim.

²⁰ And it came to pass, as they sat at shulchan, that the Devar Hashem came unto the navi that brought him back;

²¹ And he cried unto the Ish HaElohim that came from Yehudah, saying, Thus saith Hashem, Forasmuch as thou hast defied the mouth of Hashem, and hast not been shomer over the mitzvah which Hashem Eloheicha commanded thee,

²² But camest back, and hast eaten lechem and drunk mayim in the makom, of the which Hashem did say to thee, Eat no lechem, drink no mayim; thy nevelah shall not come unto kever avoteicha.

²³ And it came to pass, after he had eaten lechem, and after he had drunk, that he saddled the chamor for him, for the navi whom he had brought back.

²⁴ And when he was gone, an aryeh met him by the derech, and killed him; and his nevelah was cast down in the derech, and the chamor stood beside her [the lion], and the aryeh also stood beside the nevelah.

²⁵ And, hinei, anashim passed by, and saw the nevelah cast down in the derech, and the aryeh standing beside the nevelah; and they came and told it in the Ir where the navi hazaken dwelt.

3 If therefore you were made to stand up alive in hitkhadshut with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, seek the things above, where Moshiach is, LI’MINI ("at my right hand" TEHILLIM 110:1), sitting at the right hand of Hashem.

² Place your machshavot (thoughts) above (in Shomayim), not on the things of the Olam Hazeh.

³ For you died and the Chayyim of you has become nistar (hidden, 2:3) with Moshiach in Hashem.

⁴ When Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach who is Chayyeinu (our Life) is made manifest in hisgalus (revelation), then also you with Him will be made manifest in hisgalus in kavod.

⁵ Therefore, put to death your evarim (members) in the Olam Hazeh: zenut (fornication), debauchery, sensuality, zimmah (licentiousness), and chamdanut (covetousness), which is avodah zarah (idolatry).

⁶ Because of such things as these the charon af Hashem habah (the coming burning wrath of Hashem) is on the way.

⁷ Such was your derech to fier zich (comport oneself), the derech resha’im formerly [TEHILLIM 1:6], when you were living in these things.

⁸ But now you also put away all these things: ka’as (anger), rage, kavvanah ra’ah (malice) chillul Hashem (blasphemy). Put away loshon hora from your mouth.

⁹ Do not speak sheker to one another, having disrobed from the Adam hakadmoni (old [unregenerated] humanity) with his ma’asim (works),

¹⁰ And instead enrobe with the Adam HaChadash, the one being renewed in da’as in accordance with the demut (1:15; BERESHIS 1:26-27; Pp 2:6) of the One having created him.

¹¹ Here there is neither Yevani nor Yehudi, there is neither those who are or are not of the Bris Milah, there is no uncultured non-Greek speaker, there is no Scythian, eved, or Ben Chorin, but rather Moshiach is all in all.