Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom:

⁷ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

⁸ Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

⁹ Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰ Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:

¹¹ And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich ones among the people, shall court thy favour.

¹³ All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold:

¹⁴ She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:

¹⁵ With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall enter into the king's palace.

¹⁶ Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt thou make them in all the earth.

¹⁷ I will make thy name to be remembered throughout all generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever and ever.

3 And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah for the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes.

² So I bought her to me for fifteen silver [pieces], and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

³ And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be [another] man's, and I will also be for thee.

⁴ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statue, and without ephod and teraphim.

⁵ Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king; and shall turn with fear toward Jehovah and toward his goodness, at the end of the days.

²³ But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

²⁴ Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

2 But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

² For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

³ And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.

⁴ For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

⁵ But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

⁶ Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

⁷ so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

⁸ Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

⁹ For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

¹⁰ But to whom ye forgive anything, *I* also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your sakes in [the] person of Christ;

¹¹ that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.