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.
Pashhur Persecutes Jeremiah
20 When Pashhur the priest, the son of (A)Immer, who was (B)chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, 2 Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet (C)beaten and put him in the (D)stocks that were at the upper (E)Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the Lord. 3 On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has (F)called you, but rather [a](G)Magor-missabib. 4 For thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a (H)terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while (I)your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will (J)give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away as (K)exiles to Babylon and will slay them with the sword. 5 I will also give over all the (L)wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the (M)hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon. 6 And you, (N)Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your (O)friends to whom you have (P)falsely prophesied.’”
53 When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to question Him closely on many subjects, 54 (A)plotting against Him (B)to catch [a]Him in something He might say.
God Knows and Cares
12 Under these circumstances, after [b]so many thousands of [c]people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “(C)Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 (D)But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. 3 Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have [d]whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon (E)the housetops.
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