Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

⁸ I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother’s sons.

⁹ For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

¹⁰ When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.

¹¹ I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.

¹² They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

¹³ ¶ But I corrected my prayer unto thee, O LORD, in the time of thy good pleasure; O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy saving health.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵ Let not the violent force of the waters overcome me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD, for thy mercy is perceptible, look upon me according to the multitude of thy acts of compassion

¹⁷ And hide not thy face from thy slave, for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.

¹⁸ Draw near unto my soul and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.

¹² And they said, This is useless, for we must walk after our own devices, and we must each one do the imagination of his evil heart.

¹³ Therefore thus hath the LORD said; Ask now among the Gentiles, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

¹⁴ Will anyone leave the snow of the rock of the field that flows from Lebanon? or shall they forsake the singular, cold, flowing waters?

¹⁵ Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not trodden;

¹⁶ to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and wag his head.

¹⁷ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.

⁵ ¶ For unto the angels he has not subjected the world to come, of which we speak.

⁶ But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

⁷ Thou didst make him a little lower than the angels; thou didst crown him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸ Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not see yet that all things are put under him.

⁹ But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.