Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
7 Because (A)for Your sake I have borne reproach;
(B)Dishonor has covered my face.
8 I have become (C)estranged [a]from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For (D)zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And (E)the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
10 When I wept (F)in my soul with fasting,
It became my reproach.
11 When I made (A)sackcloth my clothing,
I became (B)a byword to them.
12 Those who (C)sit in the gate talk about me,
And I am the [a](D)song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, (E)at an acceptable time;
O God, in the (F)greatness of Your lovingkindness,
Answer me with [b]Your saving truth.
14 Deliver me from the (G)mire and do not let me sink;
May I be (H)delivered from [c]my foes and from the [d](I)deep waters.
15 May the [e](J)flood of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the (K)pit shut its mouth on me.
12 But (A)they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the (B)stubbornness of his evil heart.’
13 “Therefore thus says the Lord,
‘(C)Ask now among the nations,
Who ever heard the like of [a]this?
The (D)virgin of Israel
Has done a most (E)appalling thing.
14 ‘Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country?
Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatched away?
15 ‘For (F)My people have forgotten Me,
(G)They burn incense [b]to worthless gods
And they [c]have stumbled [d]from their ways,
[e]From the (H)ancient paths,
To walk in bypaths,
Not on a (I)highway,
16 To make their land a (J)desolation,
An object of perpetual (K)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And (L)shake his head.
17 ‘Like an (M)east wind I will (N)scatter them
Before the enemy;
I will [f]show them (O)My back and not My face
(P)In the day of their calamity.’”
Earth Subject to Man
5 For He did not subject to angels [a](A)the world to come, concerning which we are speaking. 6 But one has testified (B)somewhere, saying,
“(C)What is man, that You remember him?
Or the son of man, that You are concerned about him?
7 “(D)You have made him [b]for a little while lower than the angels;
You have crowned him with glory and honor,
[c]And have appointed him over the works of Your hands;
8 (E)You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”
For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now (F)we do not yet see all things subjected to him.
Jesus Briefly Humbled
9 But we do see Him who was (G)made [d]for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, (H)because of the suffering of death (I)crowned with glory and honor, so that (J)by the grace of God He might (K)taste death (L)for everyone.
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