Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him:

⁶ therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

⁷ And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.

⁸ But truly I am filled with power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and with judgment and with might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,

¹⁰ that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.

¹¹ The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

¹² Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

43 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.

² For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

³ Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.

⁴ Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

⁵ Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

¹⁰ *Ye* [are] witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

¹¹ as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

¹² that ye should walk worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

¹³ And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

23 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves down in Moses' seat:

³ all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,

⁴ but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.

⁵ And all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders [of their garments],

⁶ and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and salutations in the market-places, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁸ But *ye*, be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your instructor, and all *ye* are brethren.

⁹ And call not [any one] your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

¹⁰ Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the Christ.

¹¹ But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

¹² And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.