Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
HEY ה
33 Teach me the way of Your decrees, Adonai,
and I will follow them to the end.
34 Give me understanding,
that I may keep Your Torah
and observe it with all my heart.
35 Help me walk in the path of Your mitzvot—
for I delight in it.
36 Turn my heart to Your testimonies
and not to dishonest gain.
37 Turn my eyes away from gazing at vanity
but revive me in Your ways.
38 Fulfill Your word to Your servant,
which leads to reverence for You.
39 Make the disgrace I dread pass away,
for Your judgments are good.
40 Behold, I long for Your precepts.
Revive me by Your righteousness.
Parable of a Rusted Pot
24 The word of Adonai came to me in the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year saying: 2 “Son of man, record this date, this exact day—this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem. 3 Utter a parable concerning the rebellious house. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘Put on the pot, put it on
and then pour water into it.
4 Gather the pieces into it,
every good piece—thigh and shoulder.
Fill it with the choice bones.
5 Take the choicest of the flock
and pile the bones under it;
bring it to a rolling boil,
so that its bones also seethe in it.’”
6 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim:
“Oy to the city of bloodshed,
to the pot whose corrosion is in it,
whose rust will not come off it!
Draw it out piece by piece
—no lot would fall for it.
7 For her bloodshed is in her midst.
She put it on the bare rock;
she did not pour it upon the ground
to cover it with dust.
8 So it stirs up wrath for taking vengeance.
I have put her blood on the bare rock,
that it may not be covered.”
9 Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim:
‘Oy to the city of bloodshed!
I will also make the pile great,
10 heaping on the wood,
kindling the fire,
boiling the meat well,
and mixing in spices.
But let the bones be burned!
11 I will set it empty upon the coals
until it gets hot and its copper scorches,
so its impurity will be melted,
its corrosion consumed.
12 It has wearied toil,
yet its thick rust will not come out of it.
Into the fire with its corrosion!
13 Because of your filthy obscenity,
though I tried to purify you
yet you were not made pure,
you will never be cleansed from your filth
until I have satisfied My fury on you.
14 I, Adonai, have spoken—it is coming.
I will do it, I will not let go,
not pity, not relent
—according to your ways
and according to your deeds
they will judge you.’”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
11 I have become a fool—you drove me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to the super-special emissaries—though I am nothing. 12 Truly the signs of an emissary were worked out among you, with patient endurance, by signs and wonders and mighty miracles. 13 For in what respect were you treated worse than the rest of Messiah’s communities—except that I myself did not burden you? Pardon me this injustice!
14 Look, I am ready to come to you this third time, and I will not burden you—for I seek not your possessions, but you! For the children are not obliged to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 16 But be that as it may, I did not burden you myself. Nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you with trickery! 17 I haven’t taken advantage of you through any of those I sent to you, have I? 18 I did urge Titus to visit you, and I sent the brother with him. Titus didn’t take any advantage of you, did he? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit, in the same footsteps?
19 All along you’ve been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you.[a] It is before God that we’ve been speaking in Messiah—and all for building you up, loved ones. 20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I may find you not as I wish, or I may be found by you not as you wish—that there may be strife, envy, outbursts of anger, self-seeking disputes, lashon ha-ra, gossip, arrogance, unruly commotions. 21 I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I will mourn for many of those who have sinned before and not repented of the impurity and sexual immorality and indecency which they committed.
Tree of Life (TLV) Translation of the Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society.