Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees.

123 Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

² Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes [are directed] to Jehovah our God, until he be gracious unto us.

³ Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

7 The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

² Stand in the gate of Jehovah's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.

³ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

⁴ Confide ye not in words of falsehood, saying, Jehovah's temple, Jehovah's temple, Jehovah's temple is this.

⁵ But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,

⁶ [if] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

⁷ then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for ever.

⁸ Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.

⁹ What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not …

¹⁰ then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered,—in order to do all these abominations!

¹¹ Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah.

¹² For go now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹³ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, and ye heard not, and I called you, and ye answered not;

¹⁴ I will even do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh;

¹⁵ and I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.

⁸ Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you.

⁹ For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

¹⁰ *We* [are] fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.

¹¹ To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,

¹² and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer [it];

¹³ insulted, we entreat: we are become as [the] offscouring of the world, [the] refuse of all, until now.