Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ LORD, I have called unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

² Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the gift of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

³ Set a watch, O LORD, upon my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

⁴ Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to do works with ungodliness with the men that work iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.

⁵ ¶ Let the righteous smite me in mercy, and let him reprove me: and let not a flattering evil prince anoint my head, for my prayer shall ever be against his evil.

⁶ Their judges shall be thrown down from strong places; they shall hearken unto my words; for they are sweet.

⁷ Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth.

⁸ Therefore mine eyes look unto thee, O GOD the Lord; in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

⁹ Keep me from the hands of the snare which they have laid for me, and from the snares of the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, whilst I pass on ahead forever.

¹⁴ ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

¹⁵ Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel together, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD; unto us is this land given in possession.

¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they shall come there, and they shall remove all her contaminations and all her abominations from her.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh:

²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

²¹ But as for those whose heart walks after the desire of their contaminations and of their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, said the Lord GOD.

²² ¶ Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels after them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

²³ And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

²⁴ Afterwards the Spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into the land of the Chaldeans to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²⁵ Then I spoke unto the captives all the words of the LORD that he had showed me.

²⁵ Therefore, leaving the lie, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.

²⁶ Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

²⁷ neither give place to the devil.

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for edification, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with which ye are sealed for the day of redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

³² and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.

5 ¶ Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children

² and walk in charity even as the Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.