Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹²⁹ Thy edot (testimonies) are wonderful; therefore doth my nefesh keep them.

¹³⁰ The petach (entrance, doorway) of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth, and panted; for I longed for Thy mitzvot.

¹³² Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as Thy manner is unto those that love Shimcha.

¹³³ Order my footsteps in Thy imrah; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

¹³⁴ Redeem me from the oppression of adam; so will I keep Thy pikkudim.

¹³⁵ Make Thy face to shine upon Thy eved; and teach me Thy chukkot.

¹³⁶ Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, for they are not shomer over Thy torah. TZADDI

2 Now the days of Dovid drew near that he should die; and he charged Sh’lomo Bno, saying,

² I go the derech kol ha’aretz; be thou chazak therefore, and show thyself a man;

³ And be shomer over the mishmeret (requirement, charge) of Hashem Eloheicha, to walk in His derakhim, to be shomer over His chukkot (decrees), and His mitzvot, and His mishpatim (ordinances), and His edot (testimonies), as it is written in the Torat Moshe, so that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and wherever thou turnest;

⁴ So that Hashem may uphold His Davar (Word, Promise) which He spoke concerning me, saying, If thy banim are shomer over their derech, to walk before Me in emes with all their lev and with all their nefesh, there shall not yikaret l’cha (be cut off of you, fail thee) Ish on the Kisse Yisroel.

³⁸ Then some of the Sofrim and Perushim answered Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Rabbi, we desire to see an ot (miraculous sign) from you.

³⁹ But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered them, Dor rah umnaef (an evil and adulterous generation) seeks for an ot (miraculous sign), but no ot will be given it except the ot of Yonah HaNavi.

⁴⁰ For just as Yonah was in the belly of the great fish SHLOSHAH YAMIM USHLOSHAH LAILAH (three days and three nights, YONAH 1:17), so will be the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach) in the heart of the earth SHLOSHAH YAMIM USHLOSHAH LAILOT (three days and three nights).

⁴¹ The men of Nineveh will stand up at the Yom HaDin with this generation and they will condemn it, for the men of Nineveh made teshuva at the hatafah (preaching) of Yonah, and, hinei, something much greater than Yonah is here.

⁴² The Queen of the South will be made to stand up alive at the Yom HaDin with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the chochmah of Shlomo and, hinei, something much greater than Shlomo is here.