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.

¹⁸ ¶ Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not consider any of his words.

¹⁹ Consider me, O LORD, and hear the voice of those that contend with me.

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath from them.

²¹ Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.

²³ Yet, LORD, thou dost know all their counsel against me to slay me; do not forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

¹⁷ ¶ Then the prince of the priests rose up, and all those that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with jealousy

¹⁸ and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

¹⁹ But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said,

²⁰ Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

²¹ And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught. In the meantime, the prince of the priests came, and those that were with him, and called the council together and all the elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

²² But when the officers came and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,

²³ saying, We certainly found the prison shut with all security and the keepers standing outside before the doors, but when we had opened, we found no one within.

²⁴ Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the princes of the priests heard these things, they were perplexed regarding what this would come to.

²⁵ Then someone came and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.

²⁶ ¶ Then the captain with the officers went and brought them without violence, for they feared being stoned by the people.