Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

140 I have cried to the, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.

² Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

³ Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

⁴ Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

⁵ The just shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

⁶ Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:

⁷ As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

⁸ But o to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.

⁹ Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

¹⁰ The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

¹⁷ They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own heart, they have said: No evil shall come upon you.

¹⁸ For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?

¹⁹ Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.

²⁰ The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.

²¹ I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

²² If they stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way and from their wicked doings.

¹⁶ Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

¹⁷ But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

¹⁸ And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles:

¹⁹ But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak.

²⁰ For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

²¹ The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

²² And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

²³ And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come.

²⁴ The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord.

²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the goodman of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?