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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
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Psalm 30

A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.

30 I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up,
    and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Yahweh my God, I cried to you,
    and you have healed me.
Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.[a]
    You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his.
    Give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger is but for a moment.
    His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
    but joy comes in the morning.
As for me, I said in my prosperity,
    “I shall never be moved.”
You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong;
    but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
I cried to you, Yahweh.
    I made supplication to the Lord:
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?
    Shall the dust praise you?
    Shall it declare your truth?
10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me.
    Yahweh, be my helper.”
11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me.
    You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
12     to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.
Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Lamentations 2:18-22

18 Their heart cried to the Lord.
    O wall of the daughter of Zion,
    let tears run down like a river day and night.
Give yourself no relief.
    Don’t let your eyes rest.

19 Arise, cry out in the night,
    at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
    Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,
    who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

20 “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus!
    Should the women eat their offspring,
    the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
    Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
    My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of your anger.
    You have slaughtered, and not pitied.

22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.
    There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
    My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

Luke 4:31-37

31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day, 32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. 33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice, 34 saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

36 Amazement came on all and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” 37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

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