Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

PE.

¹²⁹ ¶ Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore does my soul keep them.

¹³⁰ ¶ The exposition of thy words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple.

¹³¹ ¶ I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for thy commandments.

¹³² ¶ Look thou upon me and be merciful unto me, as thou didst use to do unto those that love thy name.

¹³³ ¶ Order my steps with thy word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

¹³⁴ ¶ Ransom me from the violence of men, and I will keep thy precepts.

¹³⁵ ¶ Make thy face to shine upon thy slave and teach me thy statutes.

¹³⁶ ¶ Rivers of waters ran down my eyes because they did not keep thy law.

2 ¶ Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon, his son, saying,

² I go the way of all the earth; be thou strong therefore and show thyself a man.

³ Keep the charge of the LORD thy God, walking in his ways, keeping his statutes and his commandments and his rights and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou may have understanding in all that thou doest and in everything that thou dost undertake,

⁴ that the LORD may confirm the word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If thy sons take heed to their way, walking before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

³⁸ ¶ Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we desire to see a sign from thee.

³⁹ But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there no sign shall be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah;

⁴⁰ for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

⁴¹ The men of Nineveh shall rise in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

⁴² The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.