Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
19 But be not thou far off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword: my [a]desolate soul from the power of the dog.
21 [b]Save me from the lion’s mouth, and answer me in saving me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 (A)I will declare thy Name unto my brethren: in the midst of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,
23 [c]Praise the Lord, ye that fear him: magnify ye him, all the seed of Jacob, and fear ye him all the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the [d]poor: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great Congregation: my [e]vows will I perform before them that fear him.
26 [f]The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they that seek after the Lord, shall praise him: your heart shall live forever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord’s, and he ruleth among the nations.
9 All ye [a]beasts of the field, come to devour, even all ye beasts of the forest.
10 Their [b]watchmen are all blind: they have no knowledge: they are all dumb dogs: they cannot bark: they lie and sleep, and delight in sleeping.
11 And these greedy dogs can never have enough: and these shepherds cannot understand: for they all look to their own way, everyone for his advantage, and for his own purpose.
12 Come, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink, and [c]tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
17 ¶ [a]Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the Law, and gloriest in God,
18 And knowest his will, and [b][c]triest the things that dissent from it, in that thou art instructed by the Law:
19 And persuadest thyself that thou art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of them which lack discretion, a teacher of the unlearned, which hast the [d]form of knowledge, and of the truth in the [e]law.
21 Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest, A man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest, A man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, committest thou sacrilege?
23 Thou that gloriest in the Law, through breaking the Law, dishonorest thou God?
24 For the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, (A)as it is written.
25 [f]For circumcision verily is profitable, if thou do the Law: but if thou be a transgressor of the Law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore [g]if the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the Law, shall not his [h]uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not [i]uncircumcision which is by nature (if it keep the Law) condemn thee which by the [j]letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the Law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one [k]outward: neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew which is one within, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the [l]spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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