Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

6 (For the one directing. With stringed instruments. Al HaSheminit. Mizmor Dovid) Hashem, rebuke me not in Thine anger, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.

^2 (3) Have mercy upon me, Hashem; for I am weak: Hashem, heal me; for my atzmot are shaking.

^3 (4) My nefesh is also much shaken; but Thou, Hashem, ad mosai (how much longer)?

^4 (5) Turn, Hashem, deliver my nefesh; hoshieini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed.

^5 (6) For in mavet there is no remembrance of Thee; in Sheol who shall give Thee thanks?

^6 (7) I am weary with my groaning; all the lailah flood I my mittah with weeping; I water my couch with my tears.

^7 (8) Mine eye is consumed because of ka’as (grief); it groweth old because of all mine enemies.

^8 (9) Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Hashem hath heard the voice of my weeping.

^9 (10) Hashem hath heard my techinnah (supplication); Hashem will receive my tefillah (prayer).

^10 (11) Let all mine oyevim be ashamed and much troubled; let them turn back and suddenly be ashamed.

7 Woe is me! For I am become like a gathering of kayitz (summer fruit), like a gleaning of the vintage; there is no grape cluster to eat, none of the early figs my nefesh desired.

² The chasid has disappeared from ha’aretz; and there is none yashar (upright, straight) among men; they all lie in wait for dahm; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

³ That they may do evil with both hands skillfully, the sar and the shofet asketh for a bribe; and hagadol uttereth the evil of his nefesh (soul); so they weave it.

⁴ The best of them is like a brier; the yashar ([most] upright) is sharper than a thorn hedge; the yom of thy watchmen and thy pekuddah (visitation) cometh; now shall their confusion follow.

⁵ Trust ye not in a re’a, put ye not confidence in an alluf (confidant); keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy kheyk (bosom).

⁶ For the ben dishonoureth the av, the bat riseth up against her em, the kallah against her chamot; a man’s enemies are the men of his own bais.

⁷ Therefore I will look [in hope] for Hashem; I will wait for Elohei Yishi (the G-d of my Salvation); Elohai (my G-d) will hear me.

2 To the malach (angel) of the Kehillah (Congregation) in Ephesus, write: These things says the One holding shivat hakokhavim (seven stars) in the yad yamin (right hand) of him, the One walking in the midst of the sheva menorot hazahav (seven golden menorahs):

² I have da’as of your ma’asim (deeds) and your amal (toil) and the savlanut (patient endurance) of you [pl.] and that you cannot bear anshei resha (evil men), and have tested the ones making the claim that they are "Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach’s shlichim" and are not, and found them kozvim (liars).

³ And you have savlanut (patient endurance), and you have persevered because of ha-Shem of me and have not become weary.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you abandoned your Ahavah HaRishonah. [YIRMEYAH 2:2]

⁵ Therefore, let there be zikaron (remembrance) of from where you have fallen and make teshuva (repentance, turning from sin to G-d) and do the Ma’asim HaRishonim; but, if not, I am coming to you [pl.] and I will remove your menorah from its place, unless you make teshuva.

⁶ But this you have, that you loathe the ma’asim ra’im (evil deeds) of the Nicolaitans, which also I loathe. [TEHILLIM 139:21]

⁷ The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot; To the one who wins the nitzachon (victory) I will give to him to eat of the Etz HaChayyim (Tree of Life), which is in the Gan-Eden of Hashem, [BERESHIS 2:9; 3:22,24; also BERESHIS 2:8; YECHEZKEL 28:1; 31:8,9 TARGUM HA-SHIVIM)]